poets. "Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café" Holman and Algarin were co-editors of the anthology entitled "Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café." Published in 1994, "Aloud!" was a winner of the 1994 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Bowery Poetry Club Holman is the founder and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, which opened to the public in September 2002. Billed as "a Home for Poetry," the club sponsors poetry events every night, and workshops and readings in the afternoons. In an interview with The New York Times shortly after the club's opening, Holman said, "They say no one has ever gone broke running a bar in New York, but we're going to give it a shot." In 2004 the club won a Village Award from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. The awards are given "to help . . . recognize the people, places, and businesses that make a significant contribution to the legendary quality of life in Greenwich Village, The East Village and NoHo." Bowery Poetry Books In conjunction with YBK Publishers, Holman founded Bowery Poetry Books in 2005. Since then the imprint has published 13 titles, including works by Taylor Mead, Janet Hamill, Fay Chiang, Paul L. Mills and Black Cracker. It also published an anthology entitled "The Bowery Bartenders Big Book of Poems." Bowery records In 2007 Holman released a CD entitled "The Awesome Whatever" – produced, and with music, by Vito Ricci—on the Bowery Records label. Poets Theater Holman has directed and/or produced a steady stream of plays during his career, most of them written by poets. These include: Ted Berrigan's "Clear the Range" at St. Clement's Episcopal Church Theater, 1977 "4 Plays by Edwin Denby" at the Eye and Ear Theater, March 1981 Ed Friedman's "The White Snake" at the Eye and Ear Theater, May 1982 W. H. Auden's "Paid on Both Sides", at the Eye and Ear Theater, May 1983 A series produced at St. Mark's Church between 1988 and 1990 comprising Millicent Dillon's "She Is in Tangiers: Life and Work of Jane Bowles", Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Mayakovsky, a Tragedy," Tristan Tzara's "The Gas Heart", Antonin Artaud's "Jet of Blood", and Holman's own collaboration with Bob Rosenthal, "The Cause of Gravity"/"The Whore of the Alpines"/"Bicentennial Suicide." D. Zhonzinsky's "Stop at Nothing" at The Kitchen, 1992 Pedro Pietri's "Eat Rocks" at New Dramatists NYC Ed Sanders's "A Night at the