entanglement: a conversation and reading/performance

date: mon, november 21, 2016, 7 p.m.
venue: sfd – vienna poetryschool, mariahilfer str. 88a/stiege – stairs III/7, 1070 vienna;
free admission

anne waldman, who has had a long history with sfd since its conception and was close to the founders, will be in conversation with bernhard widder and presenting recent work with some accompaniment of soundscapes, composed by her son ambrose bye.

anne waldman, poet, performer, professor, cultural activist, is the author most recently of gossamurmur (penguin poets) and voice’s daughter of a heart yet to be born (coffee house press 2016 ), and editor of the anthology: cross worlds: transcultural poetics.  she is a recipient of the pen center usa award, the before columbus lifelong achievement award and a guggenheim fellowship. she is a chancellor of the academy of american poets. internationally recognized and acclaimed poet anne waldman has been an active member of the “outrider” experimental poetry community, a culture she has 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. yet 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. her work is energetic, passionate, panoramic, fierce at times. she is the author of more than 40 books, including the mini-classic fast speaking woman, a collection of essays entitled vow to poetry and several selected poems editions 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, and manatee/humanity, which is a book-length rhizomic meditation on evolution and endangered species, and the monumental anti-war feminist epic the iovis trilogy: colors in the mechanism of concealment, a 25 year project.

http://www.annewaldman.org

http://sfd.at/lehren-und-lernen/faculty/anne-waldman


ambrose bye is a musician, engineer, and producer living in new york city. he is a co-founder of fast speaking music with anne waldman. recent albums and projects include: comes through in the call hold, oasis at biskra, harry’s house vol. 1+2+3, jaguar harmonics, tiny people having meeting, and with heroes are gang leaders: the avant-age garde i ams of the gal luxury and highest engines near/near higher engineers and the upcoming album flukum. he recently has worked and performed at masnaa and the ecole de la literature in casablanca, la maison de poesie in paris, the fieestival maelstrom in brussels, the henry miller library in big sur, pathway to paris at montreal pop 2015, and casa del lago in mexico city. he has been involved in the recording studio and workshops at the summer writing program at naropa university since 2009.

 

event held in english.