Anne Waldman

PoemTalk #76, discussing Anne Waldman's "To The Censorious Ones"("Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms") December 3, 2013

Listen to the Complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk #58, discussing Bernadette Mayer's "The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty," October 26, 2012

Listen to the Complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, September 21, 2017

• Denouement (04:47): MP3
• Eye of the Falcon (05:50): MP3
• Shadow Behind Eclipse (04:06): MP3

Untethered, recorded at Mighty Fine Productions with Mario Casilio, August 2015

• Dirge South (18:46): MP3
• Entanglement (38:20): MP3
• Produced by Roger Green. Mixed by Xandy Whitesel with Roger Green, June 2016 at MFP. All compositions copyright Green, Dalio, Lowe, Riola, Willey 2016. All text copyright Anne Waldman, 2016-2017. Design by HR Hegnauer. FAST SPEAKING MUSIC / 2017.

Reading and Launch of Barbaric Vast & Wild: Poems for the Millennium Vol. 5, The Poetry Project, October 14, 2015

• Complete Reading (15:01): MP3

Reading and Conversation for the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, February 16 and 17, 2015

Fellows Reading, Kelly Writers House, Feburary 16, 2015

Watch on Media.sas
1. Introduction by Julia Bloch (6:52): MP3
2. Introduction by Connie Yu (3:37): MP3
3. Melpomene (17:15): MP3
4. Messages from the Bifurcated World (6:58): MP3
5. What I Learned (1:59): MP3
6. Sleeping with the Hungry Ghost (4:06): MP3
7. The Manatee (11:25): MP3
8. Gossamurmur (11:13): MP3
9. I Know This from Derrida (3:17): MP3
10. Jaguar Harmonics (7:15): MP3

Complete Recording (1:20:19): MP3

Fellows Brunch, Kelly Writers House, February 17, 2015

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Complete Recording (1:02:14): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, March 5, 2014

• Complete Reading (41:47): MP3

Jaguar Harmonics, recorded at Fast Speaking Music Studio in New York City, 2014

1. Connection (4:20): MP3
2. A Person Woven (9:00): MP3
3. Earth of Shine (3:32): MP3
4. Beyond the Canopy (3:11): MP3
5. Of the Asteroid (12:16): MP3
6. Won't Un-Study (8:14): MP3
7. Bounce (5:55): MP3
8. Burst (4:49): MP3
9. What Men Might Be (3:19): MP3
10. Cross Lines (4:57): MP3
11. Tesserae (1:52): MP3
12. Oscillate (6:01): MP3
13. Recon (3:36): MP3

Anne Waldman Reading, filmed by Ted Roeder, circa 2013

Part 1 (3:13):

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Part 2 (3:13):

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Part 3 (9:49):

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Reading at Oh! Sandy: A Remembrance, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York, November 10, 2013, hosted by Phong Bui

• Complete reading (14:39): MP3

Lecture on Poetic Symbiosis, Kelly Writers House, February 29, 2012

• Complete lecture (55:57): MP3

Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, February 26, 2012

with Lee Ann Brown

1. Two Hearts (1:16): MP3
2. Mourning Song for Akilah Oliver (4:26): MP3
3. from Manatee/Humanity (13:25): MP3
4. from Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (18:38): MP3
5. from Prisons of Egypt (3:20): MP3

• Musical accompaniment on cello: Ha-Yang Kim
• Complete reading (42:45): MP3

from textsound Issue #12, February 2012, with Ambrose Bye

• Remember Qana (5:34): MP3
• Radial Symmetry of the Younger Sister (3:00): MP3

Reading with Ambrose Bye, Belladonna* Annual Benefit, Hi! Art Gallery, New York, December 13, 2011

1. introduction (1:23): MP3
2. Sky-Goer, from Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (3:30): MP3
3. Bardo Corridor (3:51): MP3
4. Over the Hiding of Shape of a Bed a Tilling of Fields (4:32): MP3
5. from Manatee/Humanity (3:18): MP3
6. Negative Capability Blues (4:00): MP3
7. from The Iovis Trilogy (2:05): MP3
8. Moloch's motor got stuck (7:21): MP3
9. Verses for Amazing Grace (3:51): MP3

• Complete reading (34:15): MP3

Reading at Jerome Rothenberg's 80th Birthday Tribute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, December 9, 2011

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 11, 2010

1. introduction (2:49): MP3
2. from Matriot Acts (48:01): MP3

• Complete recording (51:07): MP3

With Ambrose Bye at Sue Scott Gallery, New York, December 9, 2010

• Soul Train, Welcome to the Anthropocene (51:19): MP3

From textsound Issue #4, October 2009 with Ambrose Bye

• Fossil Fuels (4:53): MP3
• Flame (5:09): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, September 24, 2009

Complete recording (1:06:55): MP3

Reading from Poems for the Millenium III, Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 29, 2009

• Complete Reading (16:25): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

• January 26, 2004 (32:04): MP3


1. Introduction (1:02): MP3
2. Discussing In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems (2:37): MP3
3. Global Positioning (3:30): MP3
4. Government, politics, and language (3:31): MP3
5. In Memory of His Muse, dedicated to Matthew Shepard (3:45): MP3
6. Buddhist influence of Waldman's writing (4:56): MP3
7. I Remember Being Arrested (4:22): MP3
8. Discussing Allen Ginsberg (2:17): MP3
9. "In the Room of Never Grieve" (2:12): MP3
10. Discussing "In the Room of Never "Grieve" (3:50): MP3


• March 4, 2010 (28:34): MP3

Against the Slope of Social Speech, Starring Eleni Sikelianos, Directed by Ed Bowes, 2007

The Eye of the Falcon - New & Selected with Ambrose Bye 2006

1. Without Stitching Closed the Eye of the Falcon (3:29) MP3
2. Better for Us All- music with Lenny Lesser (4:14) MP3
3. The Marriage of William Blake (2:03) MP3
4. Dallas (5:45) MP3
5. Tanks Under Trees (6:55) MP3
6. The Posture of Her Arms & Hands (3:07) MP3
7. Devil's Working Overtime - guitar with Jason Wahlberg (3:19) MP3
8. In Bed with the Patterns On - text and voice with Lenny Lesser (4:22) MP3
9. Invitation to a Picture Hanging (2:08) MP3
10. Singapore (3:13) MP3
11. Thy of No Dire Greenhouse Effect - voice with Eleni & Eva Sikelianos (3:28) MP3
12. What the Policeman Told Me (3:00) MP3
13. Curse - music with Malcolm Marshall (3:17) MP3
14. Did Die - voice with Eleni Sikelianos (2:59) MP3

All text written and performed by Anne Waldman. All music written, performed and produced by Ambrose Bye
Mastered by Dave Drago (www.davedrago.com). Production by Ambrose Bye (hambrose13@hotmail.com)
(Recording courtesy of Farfalla Press and Gary Parrish)

Alchemical Elegy - Selected Songs and Writings, 2001

1. Duality (4:45): MP3
2. Paean: May I Speak Thus? (AIDS Litany) (4:56): MP3
3. Crack in the World (4:08): MP3
4. Jack Kerouac Dream (2:31): MP3
5. Book of Events (5:00)
   MP3
6. Excerpt from Pieces of an Hour (Dear John Cage...) (5:45): MP3
7. Kalyanamitra (The Spiritual Friend) (2:54): MP3
8. Notes on Sitting Beside a Noble Corpse (3:16): MP3
9. Excerpt from Devil's Working Overtime (2:08): MP3
10. Citipatti Blues (5:00): MP3
11. Pratitya-Samutpada (1:46): MP3
12. Stereo (4:08): MP3
13. Kali Yuga Blues (3:20): MP3
14. from lovis II (2:50): MP3
15. Verses for the New Amazing Grace (2:44): MP3
16. First Thought (for Rudy Burckhardt) (3:27): MP3
17. excerpt from Memorial Day (with Ted Berrigan) (5:00): MP3

Produced by Anne Waldman & Steven Taylor. Engineered by Tyler Burba & Steven Taylor
With the exceptions of tracks 1, 13, & 17, all pieces were engineered at the William Burroughs Word Virus Lab, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado

Battery - Live at Naropa 1974 - 2002

1. Fast Speaking Woman (5:43): MP3
2. Skin Meat Bones (3:24): MP3
3. Anarchy (2:02): MP3
4. Two Hearts (0:47): MP3
5. Number Song (0:32): MP3
6. Phone Call From Frank O'Hara (2:51): MP3
7. Kill or Cure (5:36): MP3
8. Corridoror (2:30): MP3
9. You're Like Ice (1:51): MP3
10. HD: Split from Hesperus (0:20): MP3
11. Battery (3:20): MP3
12. Abortion (1:52): MP3
13. Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms (1:44): MP3
14. Paean: May I Speak Thus (4:15): MP3
15. Cut Up: Long, It Took Long (4:30): MP3
16. Al Seuno (5:00): MP3
17. Writing (1:33): MP3
18. Born Again Blues (4:12): MP3
19. Furor Bellicus (3:53): MP3
20. Tibetan Love Song (0:57): MP3
21. By Candle's Light, A Bedouin (2:10): MP3
22. Pieces of an Hour (4:31): MP3
23. Field of Mars (6:59): MP3

All selections were recorded live at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and have been preserved within the Naropa Audio Archive. E-mail archive@naropa.edu for more information.
Battery © 2003 Fast Speaking Music.

"Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 76.

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, April 15, 2003

1. Garden of Love (1:11): MP3
2. And Is It (2:13): MP3
3. What Nascent Irony (2:43): MP3
4. Global Positioning (3:08): MP3
5. Contra Niki(2:38): MP3
6. Rogue State (2:28): MP3
7. Cleanthe Giotto (2:31): MP3
8. What the Policeman Told Me (3:10): MP3
9. Dark Arcana: Afterimage or Glow, from Iovis 3 (20:13): MP3

Recording Engineer: Seth Laracy

Reading for the Belladonna* Series, NYC, April 26, 2002

Complete reading (25:35): MP3

1. Kontraniki (3:50): MP3
2. Global Positioning (3:35): MP3
3. Rogue State (2:25): MP3
4. Things Seen Unseen (11:20): MP3
5. The Garden of Love (4:40): MP3

By the Side of the Road

Anne Waldman (texts & voice) and Ishtar Kramer (harmonium & voice)

Anne Waldman

1. What Nascent Irony? (5:01): MP3
2. Garden of Love (1:19)MP3
   poem by William Blake;
   tune by Allen Ginsberg
3. Members of All My Tribe (3:50): MP3
4. Rogue State (2:23): MP3
5. Heaven Was Pitiless (3:10): MP3
   text: old Chinese/Tartar song;
   musical accompaniment: 'Nilleshna' theme by Lisa Gerard

Ishtar Kramer

1. Kalino Kalinche (2:52): MP3
   traditional Macedonian song, as taught by Mary Sherhart
2. Tamo Ledolu (3:53): MP3
   traditional Macedonian song

Recorded at The Naropa Studio, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80302
All Anne Waldman songs/poems © 2002 by Fast Speaking Music.
Recording and mixing by Tyler Burba.
Producer: Janus Issacantos-Maciuk & Fast Speaking Music

Reading by Anne Waldman and Victor Hernandez Cruz, St. Mark’s Church, NY, April 7, 1999

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (48:12): link
2. Side B (49:03): link

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, March 13, 1996

Complete Reading (25:41): MP3

Andrew Schelling and Anne Waldman reading for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, February 9, 1994

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (43:54): link
2. Side B (38:21): same link

Rattle Up A Deer, Live at Penny Lane 1989

Anne Waldman & Bernadette Mayer

1. Introduction by Tom Peters (1:49): MP3
2. Rattle Up A Deer (with Bernadette Mayer) (9:56): MP3
3. Iovis, Part VI (15:20): MP3
4. Ampabali's Song (Song of a Buddhist Nun) (3:15): MP3
5. from Not A Male Pseudonym (4:27): MP3
6. End Announcements (2:23): MP3

Sound engineers: Michael Zangari & Tom Peters
Recorded on portable 4 track directly through non-amplified music. Original master tapes property of "So. You're a Poet," Archives/Tom Peters, all rights reserved. © 2004.
(Recording courtesy of Farfalla Press and Gary Parrish)

Xam Cartier and Anne Waldman for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, February 22, 1989

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (28:22): link
2. Side B (47:16): same link

Reading as part of "Nurturing in Times of Peril," Naropa, May 24, 1986

• Complete recording (42:35): MP3

St. Mark's Talks, May 2, 1985

• "What Takes?" (54:52): MP3
• discussion (38:35): MP3

Fast Speaking Woman, published 1977 by S Press Tonbandverlag as tape #55 and #65 (as "Non-Stop"), Recorded by Michael Köhler at St. Mark’s, New York, September 28th, 1974

Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, "Memorial Day," the St. Mark's Poetry Project, May 5, 1971

• Complete reading (26:33): MP3


• read Michael S. Hennessey's "Recovering 'Memorial Day'" on Jacket2

"Three Minutes of My Life" from Tape Poems, ed. Eduardo Costa and John Perreault, 1969

Three Minutes of My Life (2:42): MP3

Recorded Poem on Harry's House Vol. I CD

• To Burn or Not to Burn (1:45): MP3

Recorded Poem on Harry's House Vol 2 CD

• The Nipple is the Cause - Anne Waldman, Max Davies (3:15): MP3

Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project

• Complete recording (11:52): MP3

Also of Interest:

• Waldman reads her poetry, including "Fast Speaking Woman." S Press, 1974. (29:04): MP3 , RealAudio
• Segue at the Ear Inn, October 27, 1984 (41:00): MP3
• Waldman at the Benefit Reading for Will Alexander, November 1, 2007 (12:15): MP3
• Ted Berrigan reading, briefly featuring Anne Waldman, from the Ben Tripp Tapes, Date and Location Unknown
• Side A (31:37): MP3
• Side B (31:28): MP3

Includes Berrigan reading "Service at Upway", commenting "I have only one work and I hardly know what it is", reading from correspondence ("alive and well", "I’m living in Battersea, July 1973"), "Chicago Morning", "Newton", "The End", "Sandy’s Sunday Best", "He", "She", "Communism" (referred to as "a radical work of mine"), "Red Air", sharing an "improvisational…collaborative tape" of Berrigan and Anne Waldman reading "Memorial Day", Berrigan reading "Ten Things about the Boston Trip", commenting "My poetry is domestic. It’s conversational, it’s concerned with rooms and streets and the household gods - that’s what i’m interested in actually. I’m also interested in everything else but I do what I can do", reading "Conversation ("My Name Is Wesley Jackson"), "She", "Wind", "What I’d Like for Christmas 1970", "In the Wheel" (for William Carlos Williams), "Landscape with Figures (Southampton), "Ezra Pound/A Witness", "Paul Blackburn", "Sunday Morning", and "Apologies to Val & Tom"

• Chip Delany reading and Ted Berrigan reading at West End Bar, from the Ben Tripp Tapes, 1980
• Side A (31:30): MP3
• Includes Ted Berrigan introduction and Chip Delany reading, 1980
• Side B (31:34): MP3
• Includes Ted Berrigan at West End Bar, introduced by Anne Waldman, c. 1980


• 10 Year Memorial honoring Frank O’Hara, St. Mark’s Church, 1976
• Side A (29:50): MP3
• Side B (49:29): MP3

Features Joe LeSeuer, Patsy Southgate, Jane Freilicher (reading James Schuyler), Anne Waldman as MC, Kenneth Koch (reading "Awake in Spain"), Carter Ratcliffe, Tony Towle, David Shapiro, and Peter Schjedahl

Note: Some unintentional background music and sound from earlier tape recording can occasionally be deciphered in the background. Kenneth Koch’s reading features particularly distracting interruptions.

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2017 Anne Waldman. Used with permission of Anne Waldman. Distributed by PennSound.