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.

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"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

OUTRIDER FILM

“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

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