Works by
Bob Holman
(Poet)

Fiction

• Bicentennial Suicide, a novel to be performed (1976) with Alice Notley, Bob Rosenthal, Rochelle Kraut, Ted Berrigan, Et alia

Poetry

• A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (2003) with Chuck Close (2003, 2006)
  A Couple of Ways of Doing Something replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This clothbound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized daguerreotypes printed in rich tritone. Working with daguerreotype master Jerry Spagnoli to conquer the complexities of this venerable process, which yields images of astonishing detail and gravity, Chuck Close photographed many of the same artist-friends who have made regular appearances in his paintings over the years: Laurie Anderson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Bob Holman, Elizabeth Murray, Elizabeth Peyton, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, James Siena, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage and himself. Each image is complemented by a poem on its subject by Bob Holman, the celebrated and widely published New York School poet who originated and hosted the famous Poetry Slams at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and now runs the Bowery Poetry Club. With the counterpoint of Holman's engaging poetry, the collected work becomes a transfixing group portrait of Close's influential and highly creative circle of friends and colleagues, as well as an exploration of a challenging photographic medium.

• In With the Out Crowd (1996), produced by Hal Willner
  Audio

• Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (1994), Bob Holman and Miguel Algarin, eds.
  As the 'New York Observer' writes: 'The poetry corpse is stirring,' it's beating heart is 'a big, dark, brick-walled loft on Third Street and Avenue C called the Nuyorican Poets Cafe'. Welcome to the inside of the explosion! Everyone is in here ' from founding poets Miguel Pi'ero, Pedro Pietri and Piri Thomas to Reg E Gaines, Edwin Torres, Paul Beatty, Hal Sirowitz, Carl Hancock Rux, Maggie Estep, Patricia Smith etc. etc. The classic underground poetry anthology.

• The Collect Call of the Wild (1995)
  Widely known as "the people's poet," Holman's mission is to set poetry free, to empower the public with language--to make poetry as natural a use for language as ordering a pizza. As Bob says, "The Universal remote control is being passed into your hands. Poetry is the Language of the Future."

• Cupid's Cashbox: Poems, summer 85 (1990)

• Sweat & sex & politics!: A rap poem (1986)

• Tear To Open (1979)

Movies

• Slam (1999)

• SlamNation (1998)

• The United States of Poetry - PBS. Directed by Mark Pellington. Produced with Josh Blum

Music

• The Awesome Whatever (2007), produced by and with music by Vito Ricci