Schedule

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.

Lisa Birman
SWP Director

Lisa Birman, MFA Naropa University, is a poet and writer from Melbourne, Australia. She is Director and BA Coordinator of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program as well as the Writing Faculty and Faculty Director for Naropa’s Study Abroad Program in Prague. She has taught at Naropa University, the University of Colorado, and several universities in Australia. She is co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, and her work has appeared in the Poetry Project Newsletter, 26, admit2, Square One, Thuggery & Grace and sub-scribe. Lisa is a freelance proofreader and copyeditor, and she is the co-founder of Movie Star Press. She teaches Collaboration/Crossings and Collisions for the MFA in Creative Writing.

Daniel Staniforth
SWP Event Manager

Originally from England, Daniel Staniforth is a writer and musician recenty arriving in Colorado after spells in California and Ohio. In addition to his position at Naropa, Daniel also serves as a part-time English faculty member at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. He previously served as an administrative and technical coordinator to the Academic Programs office at Miami University (Ohio) while earning a Master's degree in Literature at the same institution. He is an avid scholar of avant-garde, post-avant, and experimental literature and music, with forthcoming poetry in the Rogue Poetry Review and the Houston Literary Review. As a multi-instrumentalist and composer, he writes and records alternative rock (under the name “Luna Trick”), classical & ambient music, as well as "sonic poetscapes." New CD releases include Total Submersion, Hoar Frost Sheen, and Father to Father (forthcoming). He runs Flowforth Productions with partner, Susan Flowers.

Julie Kazimer
SWP Finance & Registration manager

Julie Kazimer is a prose writer from Denver, Colorado. After graduating from Regis University with a Master’s Degree in Forensic Psychology, she decided to change career paths and focus on writing. Her works have appeared in various literary magazines, such as the November 2007 issue of Twisted Tongue. Most recently, Julie’s manuscript, BENT or Mothers Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Gay Cowboys, won the Paul Gillette Memorial Award for book-length mainstream fiction. BENT depicts the life of a drug-addled con man navigating the devious world of Hollywood filmmaking.