April 11, 2026 6:30 pm: Spring Gala honoring with the Vicious Circle Award from The Poetry Society of New York
The Poetry Society of New York recognizes Anne Waldman for her visionary performance, activism, mentorship, and community-building in New York and beyond. Her work embodies poetry as both art and infrastructure—made collectively, carried forward, and continually renewed.

April 14, 2026, 7:30 pm: Allen Ginsberg Uptown/Downtown reading and conversation, 92NY, New York City
Join a group of renowned poets, collaborators, and friends of Allen Ginsberg — including critic Lucy Sante, poets Anne Waldman and Jana Prikryl, and Ginsberg’s biographer William Morgan — as they celebrate one of the most innovative and electrifying poets of the 20th century and revolutionary influence on American culture.
Ginsberg’s influence reverberated widely as he brought his prophetic, intimate, ecstatic poems all over the world, but he was a definitive poet of New York City — including on stage at 92NY. In a special reading and conversation with Ginsberg’s friends and collaborators moderated by renowned critic Lucy Sante, hear how Ginsberg reshaped American poetry and culture in New York and beyond.

May 18-19, 2026: Independent Beat Waves symposium, Lisbon, Portugal
Independent Beat Waves will feature Anne Waldman who will perform her poetry and discuss alternate visions of the university and of the universe itself.

May 18, 2026: Lisbon Premiere Screening of Outrider documentary, Portugal
Cinema Ideal: Rua do Loreto 15, Lisboa, Portugal

June 1 - 20, 2026: Naropa Summer Writing Program, Boulder, CO

METABOLIC THRUM

• Directed by Anne Waldman (Founder), Jeffrey Pethybridge, Swanee Astrid

  Value & Ethos of sonic transmission & printshop POETICS where the VOICE of SMALL PRESS eternally returns to the WHEEL.

  Celebrate Allen Ginsberg’s Centenary!

  Esteemed guest artists each week with workshops, lectures, panels, conversations, dharma art, cine-poetics, readings, printing, interdisciplinary collaboration

  50 years of Poetics Discourse with the Best Minds with No Help from A I !!!!

• Orientation: May 31, 2026

  Week 1: June 1-6 2026

  Week 2: June 8-13 2026

  Week 3: June 15-20 2026

• Catalog, 10+ Scholarships, Registration dates in Spring 2026

  The Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics goes beyond the focus of craft approach, pushing participants to bend genres, take risks, and enliven the creative writing process.

  In a creative writing program that is a “Golden Standard of it’s kind” (NEA grant committee) students, poets, fiction writers, musicians, editors, translators, Buddhist teachers, performance artists, and more meet for three transformative weeks on Naropa University’s campus in Boulder, Colorado.

  Here, we invoke and continue the “Outrider” lineage — a legacy of revolutionary scholarship and counter-poetics that is an ongoing experiment in creative freedom.

  Whether your medium is poetry, fiction, experimental theater, or a combination of genres, Summer Writing Program will help you flush with creative truth-seeking to refine/find what is at the heArt of your craft.

  Change the composition of your summer, your work, and your life.

  If you would like to participate in continuing the legacy of Summer Writing Program, please consider making a charitable donation to SWP the Summer Writing Program Gift Fund today!