Bob Holman

photo courtesy of Lawrence Schwartzwald

Reading for What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010), Virtual Program, February 27, 2021

For full list of readers and more information, see complete listing.

28th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival, September 8th, 2018

Bob Holman (06:02): MP3

PoemTalk #7, discussing Jerome Rothenberg's "A Paradise of Poets," May 28, 2008

Performing with Papa Susso at Kelly Writers House's Poetry and Music Festival, September 17, 2017

Bob Holman with Papa Susso (34:20): MP3

For full performance list, see the Poetry and Music Festival calendar entry at Kelly Writers House.

Tinfish Press Monthly Poetry Reading, Na Mea Hawai`i, Honolulu. February 1, 2016

• Bob Holman (31:09): MP3
• Full Recording (1:14:38): MP3

1. Introduction (2:39): MP3
2. Raining in Helo (5:33): MP3
3. C.D. Wright's "Everything Good Between Men and Women" (2:11): MP3
4. The Other Thought (4:05): MP3
5. How Kora was Born (4:34): MP3
6. I am the Red Dragon (6:12): MP3
7. Box (1:20): MP3
8. You are the Corner of My Eye (4:39): MP3

Discussion of Language Matters at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, February 19, 2015

• Complete Recording (36:23): MP3
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Reading from Poems for the Millenium III, Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 29, 2009

• Complete Reading (10:26):MP3

Performing "Bow Falls" at Spoken Word Summer Intensive at the Banff Center for Arts, Alberta, Canada. June 15, 2008

Complete recording (3:00): MP3

Ian Ferrier on guitar

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #101, "Mr. Holman tells all," with host Leonard Schwartz, 2006

Complete recording (54:48): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #98, "Macular Hole and Other Oralities," with host Leonard Schwartz, January 22, 2006

Complete recording (29:15): MP3

from Rattapallax, 2005

She Never Called Me Back (2:01): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #12, "Carved Water," with host Leonard Schwartz, December 8, 2003

Complete Reading (22:04): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 17, 2002

1. "Praise Poem: Elizabeth Murray" (2:22): MP3
2. "Bridget Riley Poem" (0:58): MP3
3. "Big Praise; Big Poem for Big Sir and Jack Kerouac" (3:56): MP3
4. "Poems from Short Fuse" (5:13): MP3
5. "How Kora was Born as Sung by Papa Suso to Bob Holman" (3:39): MP3
6. "Whatever I Was Thinking Of" (7:03): MP3


In With The Out Crowd

1. Sung to the Tune of "The Weary Road" (0:51): MP3
2. We Are the Dinosaur (Holman/Kramer-Ricci) (3:54): MP3
3. For Jorge Brandon (Holman/Spedding) (6:55): MP3
4. The Death of Poetry (6:52): MP3
5. Impossible Rap (The Other Thought) (7:21): MP3
6. Fire:Friend or Foe? (Holman/Ricci) (5:02): MP3
7. Later for Now (Holman/Spedding) (1:56): MP3
8. Forgotten Melody (The Poet and Peasant Overture) (2:59): MP3
9. Cowboy Heaven (3:16): MP3
10. Poetry By Number (1:53): MP3
11. Levitatin' In Levittown (Holman/Spedding) (4:30): MP3
12. I'd Rather Be Crazy Than Stupid (So How Come I'm Crazy for You?) (Holman/Neuwirth) (5:12): MP3
13. That's Why (Holman/Spedding) (3:46): MP3
14. Storyline (7:46): MP3
15. Perfect Harmony (Holman/Neuwirth) (1:36): MP3
16. After Li Po (0:47): MP3

Produced by Hal Willner

Bob Holman - poems/voice....Hal Willner - samples/needle-drops....Chris Spedding - guitar/bass....Wayne Kramer - guitar/bass....Bob Neuwirth - guitar/banjo/percussion....Brock Avery - drums....Ken Deifik - harmonica....Vito Ricci - sequencer....Tim Gennert - bass....Jenni Muldaur - voice....Bill Adler - sine qua non

cover art: Carroll Dunham



Reading at The Knitting Factory, NYC, December 4, 1988

As captured in the film Jack Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues", produced by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz

High quality YouTube mirror: link

For full credits and list of readers, click here

Reading for the Bloomsday Readings Series, St. Mark's Church in the Bowery Poetry Project, February 24, 1980

with Maureen Owen

• Complete reading (20:48): MP3

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Rochelle Kraut, Barbara Barg, Jim Brodey, Daniel Krakauer, Steve Levine, Greg Masters, Alice Notley, Simon Pettet, Michael Scholnick, Jeff Wright, and Gary LenhartJuly 27, 1978

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Sara Miles, September 1, 1977

Recorded Poem on Harry's House Vol 2 CD

• Thrill - Bob Holman (00:17): MP3

Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project

• Complete recording (1:19): MP3

Also of Interest:

• She Never Called Me Back (2:01): MP3
• PoemTalk #7, featuring Holman's discussion of Jerome Rothenberg's "A Paradise of Poets"
• A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Technicians of the Sacred, at the Bowery Poetry Club, September 14, 2008

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2017 Bob Holman. Used with permission of Bob Holman. Distributed by PennSound.