August 22nd, 2011
Hungarian team finds the Bowery Poetry Club - "serving the world poetry":
The BPC is a poetry performance space, founded by Bob Holman in 2002, located at 308 Bowery in Manhattan's East Village.
from the official website:
THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB revolves like a solar system around Bob Holman, the building’s owner and the club’s guiding light. In a recent profile of Bob in The New Yorker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote “he has done more for poetry in the bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti,” hearkening back to the famed impresario of the Beats. Holman has been making a living as a poet and running readings for 25 years, first at the St. Mark’s Poetry then the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he founded and MCed their infamous Poetry Slams from 1988-1996. He’s also published seven books, created Mouth Almighty, the spoken word division of Mercury Records, produced poetry shows for PBS and MTV, and toured the world of Poetry Festivals and Readings. Dubbed a member of the "Poetry Pantheon" by the New York Times Magazine and crowned "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" (New York Daily News), "Poetry Czar" (Village Voice), "Dean of the Scene" (Seventeen), Holman will be the on site eminence gris grease that keeps the Club on time, just in time, for all time.
Bob welcomes the team at his home above the Club:
"As a human, I watched the Towers implode from my office window on Duane Street, six blocks from ground zero. I thought, What to do? My response was to write a poem. And I wasn't alone."
VIDEO extract coming soon!
Photos by Tamás Zádor /Kiégő Izzók.
Hungarian team finds the Bowery Poetry Club - "serving the world poetry":
from the official website:
THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB revolves like a solar system around Bob Holman, the building’s owner and the club’s guiding light. In a recent profile of Bob in The New Yorker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote “he has done more for poetry in the bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti,” hearkening back to the famed impresario of the Beats. Holman has been making a living as a poet and running readings for 25 years, first at the St. Mark’s Poetry then the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he founded and MCed their infamous Poetry Slams from 1988-1996. He’s also published seven books, created Mouth Almighty, the spoken word division of Mercury Records, produced poetry shows for PBS and MTV, and toured the world of Poetry Festivals and Readings. Dubbed a member of the "Poetry Pantheon" by the New York Times Magazine and crowned "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" (New York Daily News), "Poetry Czar" (Village Voice), "Dean of the Scene" (Seventeen), Holman will be the on site eminence gris grease that keeps the Club on time, just in time, for all time.
Bob welcomes the team at his home above the Club:
...and as the 911 Anniversary is getting close, he talks about the project Towers of Words: The Place of Poetry in Crises:
"As a human, I watched the Towers implode from my office window on Duane Street, six blocks from ground zero. I thought, What to do? My response was to write a poem. And I wasn't alone."
Photos by Tamás Zádor /Kiégő Izzók.
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