aired nationally on PBS in January 2015. The documentary film focuses upon the rapid extinction of many of planet Earth's human languages and the multifarious struggles and efforts to save and preserve them. Holman states that "There are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. Languages have always come and gone but what is happening today is "a global crisis of massive proportions." In his review for the journal Literary Kicks, Levi Asher called Language Matters "a delightful and captivating two-hour documentary...Language Matters appears to be a television documentary about remote cultures and faraway peoples. It turns out to be a show about us all." In 2015,Alonzo Holman was awarded Ford Foundation funding to tour Language Matters throughout Alaska, and to organize poetry workshops that included speakers of Alaska's Native Languages. The screening tour and workshops were detailed by Holman in a chapter in "Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach", edited by Maryam Borjian and due for publication by Routledge in 2017. LINES Ballet Collaboration Holman is currently creative consultant to Alonzo King's LINES Ballet company, who are producing a ballet inspired by endangered languages which will be performed in spring 2017. Bob Holman Audio/Video Poetry Collection New York University's Fales Library is the home of The Bob Holman Audio/Video Poetry Collection, a multimedia collection documenting spoken word performances and productions between the years 1977 and 2002. Key items include spoken word projects featuring and/or produced by Holman himself. Marvin Taylor, director of the Fales Library, has said Holman's collection "is a magnificent resource for anyone who cares about New York's spoken word scene during the last 40 years. No one else has such documentation." Collaboration With Musicians Holman performs poetry on a periodic basis with griot and kora player Papa Susso. In June 2017, Holman performed with Serhiy Zhadan as part of the show "1917–2017: Tychyna, Zhadan and The Dogs" at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, directed by Virlana Tkacz. Filmography The United States Of Poetry, (Directed by Mark Pellington), PBS, 1995 On The Road With Bob Holman, Rattapallax, 201, Witness Downtown Rising Renga, (Directed by Nikhil Melnechuk), 2012, KHONSAY: Poem of Many Tongues, (Directed by Bob Holman and Produced by Steve Zeitlin), 2015 Language Matters With Bob Holman, (Directed by David Grubin) PBS, 2015 Bibliography Bicenntential Suicide: a novel to be performed, w/ Bob Rosenthal, Frontward Books, 1976. The Rainbow Raises Its Shoulder/When a