Starting with Bob Holman's transcription of the griot poems sung to him by West African legend Papa Susso, Holman builds on that oral tradition to share his own intimate history.
Spoken word performer, activist, and Bowery Poetry Club impresario
Bob Holman
is the former readings curator at the St. Mark's Poetry Project and the original Slammaster of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He co-founded the Endangered Language Alliance and served as the host of the PBS series
The United States of Poetry
and
On the Road with Bob Holman
on LinkTV.
Sing This One Back to Me
is his seventh collection.