ReviewRodney Holman’s poetry is very well crafted, consistent in both voice and tone, and very smart. –Paul Beatty, author of The White Boy Shuffle and Big Bank Takes Little Bank
The language and tone are very strong and specific–every factor works together here to develop a tight articulation …. –Joellen Craft, English Department, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
About the AuthorRodney Holman is a poetical and journalist who was a fellow member of the Obama National Arts Policy Committee for the duration of the Presidential campaign. He is a former Writing Consultant for the New York City Department of Education and a former Writing Tutor at the College of New Rochelle, NY. He has likewise taught at Baruch College, NY, and at Davidson College, NC, as an Apprentice Teacher.
Mr. Holman was commissioned to write the Inaugural Poem for the Harlem Book Fair, now the greatest annual event of it is kind. He is the author of assorted poems which have appeared in respective literary journals.
Mr. Holman received a writer s fellowship to spend time at the Julia and David White Artists Colony in Costa Rica. He has also expended time at Wellspring House writer s retreat in Massachusetts. As a Teaching Artist, he has invented poetry writing workshops for grade school students and adults and trained school teachers in the use of poetry-writing lesson plans.
Mr. Holman is a former CORO Public Policy Fellow, HUD Community Development Fellow, and Institute of Political Leadership Fellow. He produced the WORD UP! bus poetry posters project for WSTA buses in his home town of Winston-Salem, NC, home of the nation’s oldest arts council. The project includes periodic readings at Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
The postscriptumessay in Mr. Holman s The Gift of Allpoetry collection, “My Secret Life as a Mystic Poet”, was commissioned as an audio essay commissioned by National Public Radio (NPR). NPR not long back broadcast Mr. Holman s essay Uncivil Liberties and the Dingo Within on stolen government laptops, the erosion of privacy, terrorism, and other assaults on civil society.
Mr. Holman’s introductory novel is in progression and is based on the true story of a 16th-century sub-Saharan African man who overcame enslavement in Spain to become a widely known and esteemed professor of Latin, author, and humanist.
