As Filreis explains in his program notes at Jacket2, Holman's short films "aired on WNYC-TV as 'non-commercial commercials' from 1987 through 1993" with the Jordan clips first broadcast on April 26, 1989. Filreis goes on to quote an interview with Holman describing the spirit of the endeavor: " “I love poetry, I love its variety. I love people who say that's not a poem, because when that's not a poem, you get to talk about what a poem is. And who dares define that?”
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