Anne Waldman
Co-founder, Distinguished Professor of Poetics
SWP Chair and Artistic Director
Anne Waldman, poet, professor, performer, curator, and cultural activist, is the author of over 40 books and small press editions of poetry and poetics, including Fast Speaking Woman, the IOVIS project, Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews and Manifestos, Marriage: A Sentence, In the Room of Never Grieve, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, Outrider, and Nine Nights Meditation (with artist Donna Dennis). She is the editor of numerous anthologies, including The Beat Book, and co-editor of Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School, The Angel Hair Anthology, and Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action (with Lisa Birman). Her CDs include Alchemical Elegy, Battery: Live at Naropa, The Eye of the Falcon, and The Matching Half (the last two with music and production by Ambrose Bye). She is a recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award and has had residences at the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, and the Bellagio Center. She has performed her work on stages across the American continent and abroad. Recent conferences and festivals have taken her to Wuhan (China), Berlin, Vienna and Dublin. She works with writer and director Ed Bowes on a number of video/movie projects.
Anne Waldman