Bob Holman

Founder of The Bowery Poetry Club and Bowery Arts and Sciences, poet Bob Holman is has served on Tribes board for more than 25 years. A poet himself, Holman is the recipient of the Ostana Award for Service to Endangered Languages, and the creator and host of the PBS series Language Matters. Holman served as St. Mark's Poetry Project’s arts administrator until the mid-80’s and as co-director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from 1988-96, prior to opening the Bowery Poetry Club., He is an instrumental figure in the legacy of Slam poetry and in the popularization of performance poetry movements around the world