Bob Holman
Doug Nufer

Monday, January 30th, 7PM, Com 107 , The Evergreen State College

From Slam to Hiphop, from performance poetry to spoken word, Bob Holman has been a central figure in the reemergence of poetry in our culture. Recently dubbed a member of the "Poetry Pantheon" by the New York Times Magazine and featured in a Henry Louis Gates, Jr. profile in The New Yorker, Holman has previously been crowned "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" (New York Daily News), "Poetry Czar" (Village Voice), "Dean of the Scene" (Seventeen), and "this generation's Ezra Pound," (San Francisco's Poetry Flash), his latest collection of poems, a collaboration with Chuck Close, A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, was first exhibited at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum during the Venice Biennale and will be published by Aperture in winter 06. In 2003 Tinfish published his translations from Chinese(with the author) of Zhang Er's carved water. The TV series he produced for PBS, "The United States of Poetry," won the INPUT, International Public Television Award; he founded Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records, the first ever major spoken word label, in 1995; and ran the infamous poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Café from 1988-1996. He is currently Visiting Professor of Writing at the Columbia School of the Arts, Founder/Proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, and Artistic Director of Study Abroad on the Bowery, a certificate program in applied poetics.

Doug Nufer is the author of the novels Negativeland (Autonomedia), Never Again (Four Walls Eight Windows/ Black Square), and On the Roast(Chiasmus), all of which appeared in 2004. His fiction and poetry appear or have been in the magazines Monkey Puzzle. Monkey Bicycle, Chain, Fence, and Bird Dog, and in the Northwest Edge anthologies. He performs (recites) with a dance troupe led by Erin Mitchell, and is one of the editors of American Book Review. Most of his work is based on formal constraints, although the rule governing his forthcoming novels, The River Boys/ The Mudflat Man (soultheft), may seem to derive from nothing more formal than the double-sided book format that was made infamous by Ace Publishing inthe 1950s.