Bob Holman

Steve Zeitlin of CityLore and poet Bob Holman of the Bowery Poetry Club return with more poems and stories from people engaged with our democracy.

Bob Holman and Steve Zeitlin have a new project and they're seeking poems about where you came from - politically.  They're joined by two local contributors.

All week, we've challenged our listeners to write haikus - short poems made up of lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables in length - that sum up Wagner's massively long "Ring" cycle. Joining us to give a bit more insight into the popular poetry form is Bowery Poetry Club founder Bob Holman.

Bob Holman, poet and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, comments on how Rod Blagojevich has taken to quoting Rudyard Kipling. Question of the Day: What work would you quote if you were embroiled in scandal? Comment below!

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Good Morning New York!

Time to get up and out. its spring time which means poems on WNYC.

Bob Holman is in residence, but who is the poet that most declared Spring down on Patchin Place,

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Good morning. Bob Holman on WNYC. Time for a poem. This morning we have Henry Dumas- great poet of Harlem of the black arts movement. This is his poem "The Winter Time Blues." Appropriate you might say. But of course, with Dumas, what winter means, may be something else again.

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Good morning everybody! Bob Holman here with some poems on WNYC!

It's February 1 which is the birth date of Langston Hughes.

1902 Born James Langston Hughes, Joplin Missouri to James Nathaniel hughes who was a stenographer with a mining company and Carrie Mercer Langston hughes who wrote ...

Bob Holman for WNYC poetry land here with a new book by Quayrish Ali Lansana They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems.   Included in this wonderful collection is a song that Harriet sang as she was leaving with her treasures.  In this case her last run down South, picking up ...

Bob Holman: Its morning! It’s time for a poem. Bob Holman here on WNYC.

From the window of the Bowery Poetry Club I’m watching the extraordinary changes....

We’re in a three crane zone right now on the Bowery. Brenda Coultas is a young poet from the Lower East Side who has taken ...

Good morning everybody from poetry! From Bob Holman! From WNYC Radio! And from Donna Masini- a spectacular young poet whose new book Turning to Fiction redefines the city in a way that works through all the senses. This one comes through your ears. This is a poem called "Ending."

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Hello everybody bob Holman here WNYC’s poet in residence. A poem from Donna Masini. A poem called "Persuasion." Donna sees the city as it exists and of course as we all do, through that palimpsest of every place that's been there while we’ve lived here … directions to places that ...

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Good morning everybody! This is Bob Holman from the world of poetry and WNYC Radio.

This morning I have been so concerned about the lack of wedding poems in the fall… that I thought it be best to bring you the only ...

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How ya doin, it’s Bob Holman over at WNYC Radio... In front of me- a new book by Patrick Rosal called Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive. Now there’s a member of the hip-hop nation talking to us. Young poet in mid twenties. Patrick is the ...

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Presidential elections don’t only motivate people to get politically active they have also been a source of artistic inspiration, including poetry.

Founder of the Bowery Poetry Café, Bob Holman has been called the "democratic voice of poetry in America." Over the next ...