Bob Holman and Margery Snyder are former writers for ThoughtCo, contributing articles on poetry. Bob Holman is a poet, multimedia producer, poetry activist and performance poetry professor who lives in New York City. Margery Snyder is a poet, photographer, flute player and editor who lives in San Francisco.
Bob has published numerous books, most recently The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness with Steve Zeitlin in 2016. He’s also put poetry on television, radio and the Web, producing The United States of Poetry for PBS, appearing on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged and HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and serving as poetry commentator on WNYC and NPR. He taught “Exploding Text: Poetry in Performance” at Columbia University, is a professor at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the founder, and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club.
Margery began her writing life as a short story writer but became a poet when she moved to San Francisco and came under the influence of its community of performing poets. She has given readings of her work all over California and in New York, Chicago, Seattle, New Mexico, Paris, London , and Prague. Her books include Loving Argument (Viridiana, 1991), The Gods, Their Feathers (Blue Beetle Press, 1993) and Earthly Magic (Deep Forest, 2001).
Bob became a poet in third grade, when his teacher averred,“That’s a very good poem, Robert. Where did you copy it from?” He earned an A.B. in English in 1970 at Columbia College, where he studied with Kenneth Koch, Eric Bentley, Michael Goldman and Michael Wood. He also studied at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1974 to 1978, working with Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley.
Margery graduated with a B.A. in English and American literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1974. She went on to do graduate work at Brandeis University and at Northwestern University.
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