Featuring Amy Holman and Bob Holman

Plus open mic

Hosted by David Lawton

21+, doors open at 3:00 pm

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Amy Holman is a poet, prose writer, literary consultant, and artist. Captive is her sixth poetry book, published in October with Saddle Road Press. She writes the Substack newsletter What Where: Literary Journals. In April, 2021, she had a "micro-residency” on a barge in Red Hook, thanks to NYC Poets Afloat. Her poems have been on Verse Daily and in The Best American Poetry, and nominated by journal editors for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. 

Bob Holman is the founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and the author of 22 poetry collections, most recently The Unspoken and Life Poem (both from YBK/Bowery). The original slam master at the Nuyorican Poets Café before opening the BPC, he has played a central role in the spoken word, slam and digital poetry movements of the last several decades. Bob is also the producer/director/host of various award-winning films, many of which aired on PBS on the subject of poetry and language, as well as the co-founder of the Endangered Language Alliance.