Bumbershoot forspoken10/2/2023 ![]() 2011: Host, “Word Up! Language Matters,” PBS Special (in production, David Grubin Productions).Welsh is the only language to ever come off of the Endangered Language list -what do they know that the Irish, Scots and thousands of other languages don’t? Ah! that’s what the TV show will investigate. I’ll be spending several weeks with Grahame Davies, Dewi Prysor and other pals before competing in Ye World’s Oldest Poetry Slam (12th Century) in my bad Welsh. Shooting for the PBS special, ‘Word Up! Language Matters with Bob Holman’, is slated to begin at the Eistedfodd in early August, in the Vale of Glamorgan, just outside of Cardiff in Wales. He is currently working on two Endangered Language Projects: Khonsay: A Poem of Many Tongues, with each line from a different endangered tongue and "Language Matters with Bob Holman," a 90-minute special on Endangered Languages for PBS produced by David Grubin with Holman as host. Crossing State Lines An American Renga-a collaboration of 54 US poets, edited with Carol Muske-Dukes, was published by Farrar Strauss in 2012. His 3-part TV series exploring endangered languages and cultures in West Africa and Israel, "On the Road with Bob Holman," aired on LinkTV he created the award-winning PBS, The United States of Poetry. He has published sixteen works of poetry, most recently Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House Press) and A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, a collaboration with Chuck Close. ![]() Dubbed "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" (NY Daily News), "Poetry Czar" (Village Voice), and "Dean of the Scene" (Seventeen Magazine), he studied poetry at Columbia where he now teaches: he finds it fulfilling, becoming the guy he used to laugh at (he also teaches at NYU).
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