Anne
Waldman
Distinguished Professor | JKS Co-founder | SWP Artistic Director
Core Faculty
Programs
MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics - Core Faculty
BA in Creative Writing and Literature - Core Faculty
Education
BA, Bennington College
Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, curator, and co-founder with Allen Ginsberg
of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University, where she has worked for 40 years.
Author of more than 40 publications of poetry, her most recent books include
CROSS WORLDS: Transcultural Poetics (Coffee House Press, 2014),
Gossamurmur (Penguin Poets, 2013),and the author of
JAGUAR POETICS (Post-Apollo Press) and the
JAGUAR POETICS CD, produced by Fast Speaking Music which features musicians: Ha-Yang KIm, Devin
Brahja Waldman, Daniel Carter and Ambrose Bye. Waldman is an internationally recognized
performer of her own work, and has had recent travels to Finland, Berlin, Casablanca,
Tangiers, Paris, Geneva for conferences and festivals. She is a recipient of the Shelley
Memorial Award for Poetry and has been deemed a “counter-cultural giant” by Publisher’s
Weekly. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and recipient of the
2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.