Nuyo Records/Mouth Almighty Records
In 1994 Holman, Sekou Sundiata, and Bill Adler co-founded NuYo Records, a record label devoted to the spoken word. Its first two releases, distributed in conjunction with Imago Records, included “Grand Slam: Best of the National Poetry Slam”
This venture was revived in 1996 as Mouth Almighty Records under the auspices of Mercury Records. Over the course of the next three years the label released 18 titles, including recordings by the Last Poets, Allen Ginsberg, and Sekou Sundiata, two CDs of short fiction from The New Yorker magazine, and a two-CD set of readings of Edgar Allan Poe produced by Hal Willner. Mouth Almighty’s four-CD box set of readings by William Burroughs, produced by the poet John Giorno, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999.
In 1997, the Mouth Almighty slam team, coached by Holman, won the National Poetry Slam.
In 1998 Mouth Almighty released Holman’s own “In With the Out Crowd,” produced by Hal Willner.
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