EventsThe New Social Environment#24

Hettie Jones with Bob Holman

Featuring Jones and Holman

Friday, April 17, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Poet Hettie Jones joins Rail contributor Bob Holman for a conversation.

In this Talk

This conversation is sponsored by Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers. Support Spoonbill by donating to their GoFundMe here.

Hettie Jones

Poet Hettie Jones has written 23 books that include a memoir of the Beat Generation, three volumes of poetry, and publications for children and young adults, including The Trees Stand Shining and Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music. Jones is a longtime editor and has taught poetry, fiction, and memoir at many universities, including Penn State University, NYU, the 92nd Street Y, University of Wyoming, and Parsons School of Design. Jones has also received grants to begin a writing program on Manhattan’s Lower East Side at the Lower East Side Girls Club Center for Community. Her book, Love, H, a selection from 40 years of correspondence with the sculptor Helene Dorn, was published by Duke University Press in October 2016.

Bob Holman

Portrait by Phong H. Bui

An American poet and poetry activist, Bob Holman is equal parts spoken word performer, professor, impresario, activist, founder and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, filmmaker and host of Language Matters (2015 Documentary of the Year, Berkeley Film Festival), and beyond. “Talking Pictures,” is a film of Bob Holman’s ekphrastic poems based on the paintings of Elizabeth Murray, music by David Lang and Suzanne Vega, it’s Directed by Kristi Zea who also directed the American Masters documentary “Everybody Knows Elizabeth Murray.” Both streaming from Kino Lorber. Holman's latest chapbook WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM, streaming poems, is coming soon from SubPress Collective, and solo show: “Life Poem” with Mivos Quartet, workshop performance this spring.

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