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ST. AGNES LIBRARY BRANCH Bob Holman, Regie Cabico & Bill Kushner DATE: November 17, 2001 TIME: 2:00 pm St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City FREE http://www.rattapallax.com Bob Holman was 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, Bob Holman has previously been crowned "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" (New York Daily News), "Poetry Czar" (Village Voice), "Dean of the Scene" (Seventeen). The 5-part series he produced for PBS, The United States of Poetry, aired nationally in 1996, featuring over sixty poets including Derek Walcott, Joseph Brodsky, Rita Dove, Allen Ginsberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Lou Reed and former President Jimmy Carter, as well as rappers, cowboy poets, American Sign Language poets, and Slammers. USOP lives on as an anthology from Harry N. Abrams Publishers (currently in its second printing),and as a CD from Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records, a label Holman founded in 1996. Recent screenings include the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam. He has appeared widely on TV: "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "ABC News Magazine," MTV's "Spoken Word Unplugged," and "The Charlie Rose Show," among others. In September, 1997, the NEA announced major preproduction support for his new poetry media project, The World of Poetry. Regie Cabico is the winner of the 1993 New York Poetry Slam, a Road Poet on Lollapalooza, and the opening act of MTV's Free Your Mind Spoken Word Tour. He is the editor of Poetry Nation: An Anthology of North American Spoken Word & Written Poetry (Vehicule Press, 1998). His two poetry chapbooks are The Petting Zoo (IKON, 1994) and I Saw Your Ex-lover behind the Starbucks Counter (Big Fat Press, 1997). His work appears in numerous anthologies, including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt, 1994), The Name of Love (St. Martin's Press, 1995) and On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast (Anchor Books, 1995). Spoken-word compilations in which his work appears include Grand Slam: Best of the National Slam, vol. 1 (Mouth Almighty, 1994) and Relationships from Hell (Caroline, 1994). Bill Kushner is a 1999 recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has three published books of poetry: Night Fishing, Head, and Love Uncut. His work has been anthologized in In Our Time, Out of the World, and Up Late, and appeared in Rattapallax, Lungfull!, The World, and Mind the Gap magazines. He Dreams of Waters is his fourth books poetry. ===== Please send future emails to [log in to unmask] for press [log in to unmask] for UN program __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com