[1] Located at 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston Streets in Manhattan's East Village, the BPC is a popular meeting place for poets and aspiring artists.

Its last incarnation before becoming the BPC was as a formica tabletop manufacturer that ran on DC current.

In a 2002 article about the club in The New York Times, Holman talked about the then-risky choice to open the club on Bowery, which at the time was a "skid row": The Bowery is a vein of change.

As you get older, the risk of selling out and becoming part of that system stays real but it's mitigated by wanting to get in there and dig...

[2]The Bowery Poetry Club closed for renovations on July 17, 2012[3] and re-opened in March 2013 as a joint performance venue with Duane Park, which relocated from TriBeCa.