anne waldman (usa)

biography:

born in 1945 in millville, new jersey, raised in new york city. poet, performer/sprechstimme, professor, literary curator and cultural activist.
former director of the poetry project at st. marks church-in-the-bowery. co-founder with allen ginsberg of the jack kerouac school of disembodied poetics at the buddhist-inspired naropa institute in boulder/colorado, where she has continued to work as a distinguished professor of poetics and artistic director of its summer writing program. director of the naropa study abroad program in bali.
star of the us-poetry-performance-scene. author of more than 40 books of poetry and editor of many anthologies of poetry and poetics. audio, film and video productions.
numerous awards, i.e. winner of the pen center 2021 award for poetry, recipient of the american book award from the before columbus foundation for lifetime achievement (2015). guggenheim fellowship award in poetry (2013), pen center literary award in poetry (2021)
anne waldman lives in boulder/colorado and new york city.

publications (a.o.):

-   makeup on empty space (1984)
-   helping the dreamer (1989)
-   kill or cure (1994)
-   iovis I & II (1993/1996)
-   fast speaking woman (1996)
-   songs of the sons and daughters of buddha (trans. with andrew schelling, 1996)
-   disembodied poetics: annals of the jack kerouac school (co-editor, 1995)
-   editor of "the beat book" (1996)
-   marriage: a sentence (2000)
-   vow to poetry: essays, interviews, & manifestos (2001)
-   war crime (2002)
-   in the room of never grieve: new & selected poems 1985–2003 (2003)
-   structure of the world compared to a bubble (2004)
-   outrider (2006)
-   red noir (performance pieces) (2007)
-   manatee/humanity (2009)
-   the iovis trilogy (2011)
-   gossamurmur (2013)
-   jaguar harmonics (2014)
-   voice's daugther of a heart yet to be born (coffee house press 2016)
-   trickster feminism (penguin 2018)
-   sanctuary (spuyten duyvil 2020)
-   sciamachy (fast speaking music 2020)
-   new weathers: poetics from the naropa archive (co-editor, nightboat 2022)

 analog classes:

-   “ten directions: a writing workshop”, april 1992 (wien)
-   “interstices of imagination”, september 1993 (wien)
-   “experiments and digression for performance”, april 1994 (wien)
-   “negative capability”, oktober 1995 (frankfurt)
-   “negative capability”, juni 1996 (medellín, kolumbien)
-   “dharma poetics: spontaneous + oral writing experiments”, september 1998 (wien)
-   “sprechstimme poetics”, september 1999 (wien)
-   “dakini poetics”, september 2007 (wien) >> info
-   "symbiosis poeisis: experiments of attention & performance", mai/juni 2012 >> info
-   "going vocal: poetry in performance", juni 2013 (wien) >> info
-   "kinetic utopias", oktober 2018: http://sfd.at/waldman2018
-   "entanglement poetics: hybrid of protest and performance", oktober 2022:
    >> https://sfd.at/waldman