Bob Holman's YouTube channel is home to a growing archive of poetry films spanning nearly thirty years from the 1980s to the present.
Available on his channel are all 55 "Poetry Spots" produced by Holman between 1987 and 1993 for WNYC-TV, a public television station in New York City. In a foreshadowing of the technique used in “The United States of Poetry,” each “Poetry Spot” was a short film built around a single poet performing a poem. The series won New York Emmy Awards in 1989 and 1992.
Among the poets included in Holman's "Poetry Spots" are John Ashberry, Eileen Myles, Allen Ginsberg, Patricia Smith, Amiri Baraka, Jessica Hagedorn, Ron Padgett, Edwin Torres, Jose Padua, Tracie Morris, Carl Watson, and Pedro Pietri."Words In Your Face" (1991) features Henry Rollins, Maggie Estep, John Leguizamo, John S. Hall, Muta Baruka, Deacon Lunchbox, and Bob himself.
"Slammin: The Sport of Spoken Word" (1990) features poets Cheryl B, Evert Eden, David Mills. Susan Ross, and Evert Eden