
ANNE WALDMAN—internationally acclaimed poet, performer, activist, and magpie scholar—has been a force in experimental “Outrider” poetics for over four decades, recognized in the lineages of the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain traditions while raising the bar as a feminist and cultural activist. Author of more than 60 books, including the classic Fast Speaking Woman, the monumental Iovis Trilogy, and most recently Mesopotopia, her work spans epic poems, essays, performance, opera, and multidisciplinary collaborations. Anne was a co-founder of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and, with Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. She remains a highly original “open field investigator” of consciousness, committed to the possibilities of radical shifts of language and states of mind to create new modal structures and montages of attention. Her work is prophetic, multidisciplinary, energetic, passionate, panoramic, and fierce at times.
October 8, 2025, 8:30 pm: Celebration of Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez
The Poetry Project: 131 E. 10th Street, NYC
October 11, 2025, 6 pm: Exhibit Opening: Mercy-Eyed, Down the Triple Highway, Poets House, NYC
To celebrate the exhibit opening of Mercy-Eyed, Down the Triple Highway, Poets House hosts a special performances and readings featuring No Land and Anne Waldman accompanied by musicians Oliver Ray on guitar and Geogia Wartel Collins on double bass.
October 13, 2025, 7 pm: KGB Bar, NYC: Reading with Charles Bernstein and Bob Holman
October 30, 6:30 pm: Off Paradise Gallery reading, NYC
Anne Waldman with Cedar Sigo & special guest Melanie Dyer
November 1-2, 2025: Poets House, NYC
The Velvet Thread workshop intensive with No Land.
November 24, 2025: Giorno Poetry Systems, NYC: Your Devotee in Rags Listening Party
December 4, 2025, 7pm; City Lights Bookstore reading for Mesopotopia, San Francisco, CA
Recent Books + Projects

"Anne Waldman is more rock 'n' roll than any rock 'n' roll performer I know." —THURSTON MOORE
"Anne Waldman is more rock 'n' roll than any rock 'n' roll performer I know." —THURSTON MOORE
“Anne Waldman is one of the most important and irreducible living American poets.”
—Nick Sturm, Poetry Foundation, 2023
Outrider screenings
October 17, 2025; 7 pm: The Poetry Project
131 E. 10th Street, NYC
October 20, 2025: Pomona College
Claremont, CA
October 24, 2025; 4 pm; The New School
The Auditorium (Room A106), Kaplan Hall, 66 W. 12th Street, NYC
The Religious Studies and Creative Writing programs at Eugene Lang College welcome poet and performer Anne Waldman and film director Alystyre Julian. A screening of the documentary Outrider, about poet Anne Waldman will be followed by an open discussion with Anne Waldman, director Alystyre Julian, and Christopher Kelley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Religious Studies.
November 7 – 16, 2025: Yonkers Film Festival
N 28 Wells Avenue, Yonkers, NY
November 10 – 16, 2025
Brooklyn Public Library LitFilm Festival
November 12, 2025; 9 pm; Paris Premiere!
Maison de la Poésie, 157 Rue Saint-Martin
November 13, 2025: The American University of Paris
5 Bd de la Tour-Maubourg
November 15 – 16, 2025; Munich Premiere!
Cinema Werkstattkino
November 17 – 18, 2025; Vienna Premiere!
November 19 – 23, 2025; Madrid Premiere!
Poetas Poético Film Festival
December 5, 2025; 4:30 pm; International Buddhist Film Festival
Smith Rafael Film Center; 1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA
December 6, 2025; San Francisco Premiere!
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street