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WHAT'S BOB RIGHT NOW! 


Inauguration's Augur Orations
AP asked Alvarez, Baraka, Holman and more to write and recite poems for Obama!
Full story here.


Reclaiming Kipling
Twas the night before Christmas and Brian Lehrer asked Bob to weigh in on rude Rudyard.


Boyfriend of the Year
Rosario Dawson hosted the LES Girls Club 2008 Willow Awards and bestowed best bf status 'pon Bob!
'Mazing slide show courtesy Aaron Lee Fineman.


Slam Stories
"AUDIENCE: DO YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO TRY TO INFLUENCE THE JUDGES' SCORING THROUGH YOUR UNBRIDLED ENTHUSIASM?"



Best Interview in 1,000,000,000 years!
 Monica de la Torre of The Brooklyn Rail nails it! complete w/ Photos of Bob reading at Museum of Modern Art (1980) and Bob w/ P.O.E.T. (Poets Overland Expeditionary Troop, Sandra Maria Esteves, Brenda Connor-Bey, Pedro Pietri, Rose Lesniak and Bob) (1978)


She Never Phoned Me Back
Mamie the Bowery Intern sez Bob's poem, She Never Phoned Me Back, "completely blew my ears out!!"


What's so American about American poetry?
Was it a coincidence that Bob was born a jar planted in Tennessee???


CiberKiosk Gets Portuguese w/ Bob
The questions get mighty personal! Democratization! 3rd Grade Poem!


A Tribute to Bob's friend and lawyer, Paul Gulielmetti,
includes a Praise Poem. From the Brooklyn Rail.


Spalding Gray and Pedro Pietri
Bob's Praise Poem remembers that Spalding floated up a couple days after Pedro passed, on an airplane (high), between time zones, between languages, at midnight.


Top site for Holman MP3 Downloads
"In With the Out Crowd" in toto.


 

Big Praise! Big Poem! Big Sur!
 

George Wallace's Jack Kerouac site is both news (major transcontinental marathon reading of Kerouac's last novel, Big Sur, in July 22) and history -- including Bob's 17-page intermezzo of critique, footnoted citations and unabashed praisology.

 


 

Outloud Alive!

 

October 2000, Mr Holman and Associates performed amazing Traveling Word Show in Calgary with cyberfeat in Banff. Check it in.

 


Want Bob in Dutch? plus David Amram Praise Poem!


 

Some great pix and poems on Jackie Sheeler's rockin' poetz site!