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Bob Holman

1948 –

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Bob Holman was born in Tennessee to Sally Ruth Lewis, the daughter of a coal miner, and Benjamin Franklin Geller, the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. Both of his parents were from Harlan, Kentucky. Holman attended Columbia University, where he was a student of Kenneth Koch. In the early 1970s, he attended Alice Notley’s workshop at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project.

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Good morning, Vincent
It is early May, 1889
Time to get up and paint
Wheat Field with Rising Sun
Hurry before all the firmament
Starts to fall apart again
Right now it’s all singing
“Good morning, Vincent!”

Bob Holman

2013

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