Anne Waldman

Author's Bio

Poetry is a path of practice, devotion, performance and community in my case. From years working at The Poetry Project at St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in NYC to the founding and continuing work at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Cultural activism seems relevant and keeping the world safe for poetry. See links to Fast Speaking Music and website www.annewaldman.org

Publications and Prizes

Books:

The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011), Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets, 2009), Structure Of the World Compared To A Bubble (Penguin Poets, 2004), In the Room of Never Grieve (Coffee House Press, 2003), Marriage: A Sentence (Penguin Poets, 2002), Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights, 1997), Iovis: All Is Full of Jove, Books I and II (Coffee House Press, 1997), Kill Or Cure (Penguin, 1996)

Anthologies:

Civil Disobediences: Poetics & Politics in Action, Co-editor:AW (Coffee House Press, 2004)

Journals:

American Poetry Review, City Lights Review, Conjunctions, Poetry Project Newsletter, Sulfur

Prizes:

Pen American Center Award for Poetry 2012 forThe Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment Guggenheim Fellowship 2013. Shelley Memorial Award.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Kind One by Laird Hunt, Hello, The Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish, Songs of Kabir by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Reading Descartes Otherwise by Kyoo Lee

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Listing last updated: May 1, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet, Spoken Word Artist

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Buddhist

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Millville, NJ

Raised in:

New York, NY