Artistic Director - Bob Holman
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). He
is currently Visiting Professor of Writing at the
Columbia School of the Arts and Founder/Proprietor
of the Bowery Poetry Club.
ANNE WALDMAN. Visiting writer and director.
A poet and performer with over 30 volumes, Waldman
is the co-founder of the Jack Keroauc School of
Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen
Ginsberg. As director of the Saint Mark's Poetry
Project in the late sixties she established herself
as a woman on the scene. She is known for her vibrant
and physical performances with a hint of Buddhism.
She will be leading the Thursday daily writing series on the "St. Mark's Poetry Project/Naropa".
To find out more about ANNE WALDMAN visit www.poetspath.com/waldman.html
Kristin Prevallet
Kristin Prevallet was born in Denver and has lived
in New York (City and State) for the past 15 years.
She attended the University of Colorado and the
University at Buffalo. She was an editor of the
magazine apex of the M and has edited several books,
including Fire Brackled Bones: A Helen Adam Source-book
(forthcoming, National Poetry Foundation, Spring
'06). Along with Bob Holman, Anne Waldman, and
Alan Gilbert she founded Study Abroad on the Bowery:
A Certificate Program in Applied Poetics at the
Bowery Poetry Club . She is the author of two full-length
collections of poetry: Perturbation, My Sister
(First Intensity, 1998) and Scratch Sides: Poetry,
Documentation and Image-Text Projects (Skanky Possum,
2003). She teaches Investigative Poetics for Naropa
University's online MFA program, and is an associate
with Bard College's Institute of Writing and Thinking.
Her homepage is: www.kayvallet.com
A recent essay: Writing Is Never by Itself Alone: Six
Mini-Essays on Relational Investigative Poetics
CONTACT US
Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
Phone number: 212-334-6414
Address: 310 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
E-mail: boweryadmin@gmail.com