Poetry is Bread

Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 14 with Poet Martín Espada on poetry and social justice. Host Bob Holman.  Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni. 

Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 13 withPoet Nikki Giovanni on her life and heritage. Host Bob Holman.  Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni. 

Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 12 with MC Paul Barman. Host Bob Holman.  The New York Times called his music "a surreal departure from the rap norm". Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni. 

Episode 11 of “Poetry is Bread” with host Bob Holman and poet Eileen Myles. Eileen takes a deep dive into some of their poems. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni. 

Episode 10 of “Poetry is Bread” with host Bob Holman and Dante Micheaux about Pelham and Rodrigo Rojas from #Chile. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni. 

Episode 9 of “Poetry is Bread” with host Bob Holman and Joy Harjo, an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni. 

Episode 8 of “Poetry is Bread"with host Bob Holman and Beau Sia —  a Tony Award winning poet and world-renowned performer, featured on all 6 seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry and the winner of two National Poetry Slam championships. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.

Episode 7 of “Poetry is Bread” with host Bob Holman and poet and writer Rick Moody discuss his US Presidential poems from Trump, Obama to Nixon. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni. Read the poems at https://www.rattapallax.com/president

Episode 6 of “Poetry is Bread” with host Bob Holman and poets Victor Hernández Cruz and El Habib Louai in Morocco talk about the intersection of cultures, food, art, and languages.  Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.

Host Bob Holman on the "Poetry of Possibility," with Edward Hirsch and Idra Novey -- two poets whose sensibilities encompass both the lyrical and the socially conscious. So much to talk about from Pablo Neruda to Clarice Lispector. The art of translations to the power of duende. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.