MFA Reading Series Event: Anne Waldman

Please join us for a reading, reception, and book signing with Anne Waldman, the Fall 2010 Distinguished Visiting Writer to the English Department's Creative-Writing MFA Program.

October 29, Friday, 6-8
Spector Lounge
Humanities Building, 4th floor

Poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the "Outrider" experimental poetry community for over forty years as writer, performer, professor, editor, magpie scholar, infrastructure and cultural/political activist. She has also collaborated extensively with a number of artists, musicians, and dancers. She grew up on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village where she still lives, and bi-furcated to Boulder, Colorado in 1974 when she co-founded The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired school in the West, where she currently serves as Artistic Director of its celebrated Summer Writing program. She is the author of over 40 books of poetry including Kill or Cure, Marriage: A Sentence, and Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble. Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets 2009) is Waldman's most recent book. She is also the author of the legendary Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights, San Francisco), now translated into Italian, Czech and French; as well as the 800-page epic Iovis trilogy (Coffee House Press), forthcoming in 2011. She is editor of The Beat Book (Shambhala Publications) and co-editor (with Lewis Warsh) of The Angel Hair Anthology (Granary Books), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action (Coffee House) and Beats at Naropa (Coffee House, 2009). Her play Red Noir was produced by the Living Theatre and directed by Judith Malina in winter 2009-2010.

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