“We should be having memorials to our own lack of conscience.” New York’s 92NY Loses Ginsberg Centennial After Authors Withdraw.
Lamenting the inability to celebrate Ginsberg’s 100th birthday at the very venue where he once read, Anne Waldman told The Key, “Some of us in good conscience did not want to participate ... What about the rubble and destruction of Gaza all around us? Maybe the [92NY] should examine and explore the level of harm to all the poets, artists, educators, doctors, innocents of all countries,” she said. “I wish there could be an awakening for institutions, including my own government, regarding genocide and complicit silence.” When faced with the prospect of celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s life with an event at the 92NY, the hypocrisy was too much for Anne Waldman. “The destruction and wiping-out of a civilization and its culture is criminal. We should be having memorials to our own lack of conscience,” she said. “I fear that poets and artists are caught in a karmic storm all over the arts and literary worlds. [There will be] no resolution until there is investigated accountability for reckoning of innocents lost. Allen would agree.” 
—Samaa Khullar, The Key, June 18, 2026

A Profile of Anne Waldman: At 81, the poet Anne Waldman reflects on Buddhism, art, activism, and the urgent work of keeping the world awake to itself. Tricycle Magazine, Summer 2026
“Waldman’s work constantly raises the stakes of the questions that art asks. ‘How do we get beyond the serotonin mind, and beyond the war mind?’ Waldman asks, bluntly. ‘What side are you on? What do we want to solve? What is compassion? What is true empathy?’”

“Anne Waldman has written a new book that searches out the value of the imagination amidst imminent global catastrophe and ultimately teaches readers to work, build something of human value, as our world collapses. Mesopotopia undertakes a poetics of immersive, overwhelming world-historical awareness, and what emerges is a grounding human vision for the work of poets and artists, work which turns out to be surprisingly indispensable…. Waldman’s work is one of the great achievements of contemporary writing. Her poetry is always bright, prismatically intelligent, tough as nails, and full of glee, questioning, rage, love, sorrow, and visions of how we and she could be truer than we are.” —Hannah Burns for The Brooklyn Rail, Mar 2026

“The roles of language in ritual & tradition” interview in Interlocutor by Isabelle Sakelaris, Feb 11, 2026.
“This is one of the most complicated times to speak of harmony. Hard to put aside, ignore. Trying to make an inventory of experience, consciousness, impressions, struggles, emotions, loss of reason, ethical and moral calamity to make sense of this time…. A tall order for a book of poetry I had envisioned for quite a while, feeling the urgency of completing it during the time frame of 2025…. Thus, Mesopotopia was a way to cope and expand and release my burning cri de coeur.” —Anne Waldman, from the interview

Review of Archivist Scissors, “hanging out is of utmost importance: on Rainer Diana Hamilton's Lilacs and Anne Waldman's Archivist Scissors” by Kat Beaman, Commonplace Review, Dec 31, 2025

Poet Anne Waldman’s Star Turn, Jonah Raskin for Counter Punch, Dec 12, 2025
”Waldman is not all one thing or all another. She’s a living, breathing mosaic. Julian’s film [Outrider] shows as many different sides of her as can be shown.” —Jona Raskin

Don Yorty on Bob Holman, Charles Bernstein, and Anne Waldman reading at KGB Bar, Dec 21, 2025

The Drunken Odyssey podcast: John King interviews the poet Anne Waldman about her extraordinary new work, Mesopotopia. Dec 6, 2025.

Live! From City Lights. Anne Waldman Discusses Mesopotopia. Dec 4, 2025.

Review by Nina Živančević for Rock and the Beat Generation, Nov 27, 2025.
”SHE STORMED into Paris like a hurricane and took us by surprise.” —Nina Živančević

“Anne Waldman’s Continuing Voice in Outrider,” by Vera Dika, Millennium Film Journal, Oct 14, 2025