Anne Waldman
February 16–17, 2015
- Reading: Streaming video, MP3 audio
- Discussion: Streaming video, MP3 audio
Bio
Acclaimed poet Anne Waldman has been an active
member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community, a culture she
helped create and nurture for over four decades as writer, editor,
teacher, performer, magpie scholar, infra-structure curator, and
cultural/political activist. Her poetry is recognized in the lineage of
Whitman and Ginsberg, and in the Beat, New York School, and Black
Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry. She remains a highly
original “open field investigator” of consciousness, committed to the
possibilities of radical shifts of language and states of mind to create
new modal structures and montages of attention. Waldman is the author of
more than forty books, including Fast Speaking Woman, Vow to Poetry, and
several selected editions of poetry, including Helping the Dreamer,
Kill
or Cure and In the Room of Never Grieve. She has concentrated on the
long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage: A
Sentence; Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble; Manatee/Humanity;
and the monumental anti-war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in
the Mechanism of Concealment. Waldman was a founder and director of The
Poetry Project at St. Marks’s Church in-the-Bowery and co-founded, with
Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist-inspired university in
the western hemisphere, in 1974. Waldman is a distinguished professor of
poetics at Naropa; she also has been a fellow at the Rockefeller
Foundation’s Bellagio Center and at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in
Umbria; has held the Emily Harvey residency in Venice; was active in
Occupy Art, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street in New York City; and is a
recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and the Poetry Society of
America’s Shelley Memorial Award, in addition to recently being
appointed a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Waldman divides
her time between New York City and Boulder, Colorado.
- Introduction by Julia Bloch (6:52): MP3
- Introduction by Connie Yu (3:37): MP3
- Melpomene (17:15): MP3
- Messages from the Bifurcated World (6:58): MP3
- What I Learned (1:59): MP3
- Sleeping with the Hungry Ghost (4:06): MP3
- The Manatee (11:25): MP3
- Gossamurmur (11:13): MP3
- I Know This from Derrida (3:17): MP3
- Jaguar Harmonics (7:15): MP3