Bob Holman and Eric Edwards

Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, is the author of 17 poetry collections, including Sing This One Back to Me (Coffee House Press), and A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, a collaboration with Chuck Close), and has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. These days, a lot of his work concentrates on poetry’s utility in the revivification of endangered languages, including Language Matters for PBS.

Bob will be performing The Cutouts (Matisse), his third chapbook over thirty years with Eric and Rebecca Edwards’ PeKa Boo Press (Woods Hole). The 50 miniatures in the book are ekphrastics—art inspired by other art—in this case the eponymous work with scissors and colored paper that occupied Matisse for the last 14 years of his life.  Keith Patchel set them to music. 

Eric Edwards grew up in Woods Hole, MA, where he lives in the house he grew up in, with his wife Rebecca. He has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from B.U. where he won the poetry prize (1973). He has taught haiku and contemporary poetry, when he can get paid for it. Most recently he read new work with Bob at the Bowery Poetry Club to celebrate the publication of The Cutouts (Matisse).  He will read some new work.