Events
September 10, 2026, 7 pm: Anne Waldman and Eileen Myles reading, Brooklyn, NY
Overhear reading at The Urbane Arts Club
1016 Beverley Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11218
Overhear is a cross-generational monthly poetry reading series at a mansion in mysterious Kensington/Ditmas Brooklyn. Built by a 19th century painter/architect couple who lived here for years, the mansion later became a speakeasy, a religious site, a political party HQ, a library, and an event venue, before evolving into a center for creative foment. It is 60% definitely not haunted.
Overhear is hosted by Brendan Lorber & Joe ElliotSeptember 18 - 20, 2026: Stroll of Poets Festival with Wise Women: Magic Words, Calgary, Canada
Presented with the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and in collaboration with Sheri-D Wilson and the Calgary Spoken Word SocietySeptember 18; 8 pm: An Evening of Awe poetry reading
September 19; 1 pm: Dharma Gaze talk
September 20: 1 pm: Outrider film screening followed by a Q & A
September 25, 2026; 7 pm: Kavanagh Festival Keynote, Ireland
Round Tower Church and Patrick Kavanagh Center, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
The keynote will be followed by a conversation between Adrian Dunbar and Anne Waldman. Once complete the audience will be invited to participate in a Procession of Light led by The Armagh Rhymers through the village all the way to The Patrick Kavanagh Centre, wherein a very special late night concert will take place; Unreal Cities presents “Kavanagh and The Beats”.September 26, 2026; 8 pm: KW26 Presents Tommy Tiernan in conversation with Anne Waldman
Patrick Kavanagh Center, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
A conversation that promises to be anything but ordinary. Tommy Tiernan, Ireland’s beloved comedian, actor, podcaster and chat show host meets Anne Waldman, legendary American Poet, professor, performer, librettist and cultural activist. Joining the conversation will be Nick Roth & Adrian Dunbar, the curatorial duo of multi-disciplinary arts project Unreal Cities.October 3, 2026: Verbatim Text Sound Expo: Anne Waldman and Devin Brahja Waldman, Maplecrest, NY
Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts: 35 Big Hollow Road
A rural festival of live poetry and experimental sound with an independent book, cassette, and record market.October 9, 2026; 8 pm: Find Your Own Voice: James Brandon Lewis and Anne Waldman, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
Award-winning saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis, a Jazz Generations Initiative (JGI) Continuum Fellow, presents Thru Line, a three-night residency at Roulette as part of his 2026 fellowship. The series brings together improvisers, poets, musicians, and multidisciplinary artists from across media and generations. This evening’s performance features a duo set by James Brandon Lewis and poet Anne Waldman, along with duo performances by Oliver Lake and Josh Werner, and Tuesday Taylor and Melanie Dyer. Presented by the Jazz Generations Initiative in partnership with Roulette.
A livestream will be available free on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
$25 advance | $30 doors | $20 STUDENT/SENIOR (w/ ID, SENIOR 65+ - advance and at door) | Doors 7 pmOctober 14, 2026; 3 pm: Kelly Writer's House ModPo live conversation with Al Filreis and Anne Waldman
TUNE IN TO WATCH THE LIVE WEBCASTOctober 14, 2026; 6 pm: Outrider film screening at Kelly Writer’s House, Philadelphia, PA
Join us for a screening and discussion of Outrider. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Anne Waldman and Outrider’s director, Alystyre Julian.
Hosted by Laynie Browne
Arts Cafe: Kelly Writers House, University of PennsylvaniaOctober 24, 2026; 8:30 pm: Outrider film screening for the Bowery People’s Poetry Gathering Film Festival
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Followed by a Q&A with Alystyre Julian and Anne Waldman
Poet/filmmaker Alystyre Julian’s OUTRIDER is a kinetic portal into fast-speaking poet Anne Waldman’s transcendent role as a visionary word-worker, from her “hearthome” in Greenwich Village and The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, to the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and outwards to Big Sur, Morocco, and Mexico. Guided by ancestors of the Beat generation and poetic kinships with radical female musicians, OUTRIDER channels the ancient, bardic tradition — celebrating the thunderous power of poetry.
Recent Events
September 2 - 6, 2026, 8:30 - 10 pm: Thomas Bartlett: Allen Ginsberg at 100
Little Island, New York City
Celebrate 100 years of Allen Ginsberg and his enduring impact on New York City. Each night features an extraordinary house band alongside a roster of cultural icons reinterpreting Ginsberg’s legendary body of work through music and readings.August 28, 2026, 6:30 pm: Outrider Spotlight Screening at Bolinas Film Festival
Bolinas Community Center: 14 Wharf Road, Bolinas, CA
Alystyre Julian’s Outrider is the first feature-length cine-kinetic portrait of Grammy-nominated, epic poet, performer, and activist Anne Waldman. Outrider celebrates Waldman’s visionary energy and transcendent presence, as she channels through the ancient, bardic tradition–the thunderous power of poetry.July 31, 2026, 6:30 pm: Allen Ginsberg Centenary Celebration
Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO
Join us, along with Anne Waldman, Chuck Lief, Max Davies, Carolina Ebeid, Thomas R. Peters Jr, Jim Cohn, Reed Bye, Gary Allen, Jeff Pethybridge, and others for a night of poetry and music to celebrate 100 years of Allen Ginsberg.July 19, 2026, 11 am: Outrider screening at Electric Palace, Hastings, UK
Executive Producer Martin Scorsese presents: Alystyre Julian's OUTRIDER is a kinetic portal into fast-speaking poet Anne Waldman's transcendent role as a visionary word-worker, from the downtown New York scene and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, to the ‘Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics,’ to Big Sur, Mexico City, Morocco, and onward. Guided by ancestors of the Beat generation and poetic kinships with radical female musicians, Outrider channels the ancient, bardic tradition—celebrating the thunderous power of poetry.July 14, 2026: London Premiere Screening of Outrider documentary
Swedenborg House: 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, United Kingdom
Followed by a conversation between Alystyre Julian and Thurston Moore, moderated by Stephen CoatesJune 30, 2026, 7 pm: Film screening of Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, introduced by Alystyre Julian, New York City
As part of the Allen Ginsberg Centennial celebration at Anthology Film Archives, Alystyre Julian will introduce the film Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Anthology Film Archive: 32 Second Avenue, New York City
“In 1975, in an America defined by both the self-mythologizing pomp of the upcoming bicentennial and ongoing sociopolitical turmoil, Bob Dylan and a band of troubadours—including luminaries such as Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell—embarked on a now-legendary tour known as the Rolling Thunder Revue, a freewheeling variety show that was part traveling counterculture carnival, part spiritual pilgrimage. Martin Scorsese blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief, with a magician’s sleight of hand, into a zeitgeist-defining cultural record that is as much a concert “documentary” as it is a slippery, chimerical investigation into memory, time, truth, and illusion. At the center of it all is the magnetic Dylan, a sphinxlike philosopher-poet singing, with electrifying conviction, to the soul of an anxious nation.”—CRITERIONJune 20, 2026, 2 pm: Reading at Trident Bookstore, Boulder, CO
Launch of Winter in America (Still anthology with Roxi Power and many others
Join us to celebrate the conclusion of the Naropa 2026 Summer Writing Program with faculty and friends
940 Pearl Street, Boulder, COJune 1 - 20, 2026: Naropa Summer Writing Program, Boulder, CO
METABOLIC THRUM
Directed by Anne Waldman (Founder), Jeffrey Pethybridge
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!
June 3, 2026: Allen Ginsberg Centennial Celebration
The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, New York CityMay 24, 2026, 5 pm: Brussels Premiere Screening of Outrider documentary at fiEstival
Cinema Vendôme: Chaussée de Wavre 18 1050 Ixelles, Belgium
Followed by a performance by Anne Waldman, and a conversation between Anne Waldman and Alystyre Julian
Moderated by Pierre Guéry (FR) and David Giannoni (IT)May 17-19, 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.
Venues: FLUL (amph. III), Casa Fernando Pessoa, Cinema IdealMay 18, 2026, 9 pm: Lisbon Premiere Screening of Outrider documentary
Cinema Ideal: Rua do Loreto 15, Lisboa, Portugal
Followed by a conversation between Anne Waldman, Alystyre Julian, and Billy WoodberryMay 7, 2026: La Biennale, Venice, Italy
A procession of poets will take place in the Giardini della Biennale, inspired by Koyo Kouoh’s Poetry Caravan, a voyage she undertook with nine African poets from Dakar to Timbuktu in 1999. The performance honours her memory and opens a space for poetry and storytelling. It pays homage to the griots those who seek the source human dream to spread the wings of knowledge and power. In the Giardini of La Biennale, poets will assemble to form a chorus vested with the power of the word, the groundswell of recital and spiritual healing.
May 5, 2026: John Giorno: Dial-a-Poem live in Venice
A one-night activation of live poetry readings and performances to celebrate John Giorno and the launch of Dial-A-Poem Italy. Organized by Mousse Magazine in collaboration with Giorno Poetry Systems.
Serra Dei Giardini, Venice, ItalyApril 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.February 7, 2026; 2 pm, Poets House, NY
Exhibition Closing: Mercy-Eyed Down the Triple Highway: No Land and Anne Waldman
Performance by Anne Waldman with composer Janice Lowe
February 4, 2026; 7 pm; Orpheum Theater, Saugerties, NY
Outrider film screening, discussion, and book signing
January 4, 2026: Reading at Black Spring Books, Brooklyn, NY
One of New York City's most iconic and longest-running annual cultural events, the New Year's Day Marathon at the Poetry Project is an experiment in poetry and performance, maximized. As our biggest annual party and fundraiser, the Marathon is a celebration of and recommitment to what it is that we actually do here at The Poetry Project: make poetry, which is to say life, or at the very least a kind of life, more possible… READ MORE.
7–8 pm: hosted by Patricia Spears Jones:Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon; Sol Cabrini and Erinn Buhyoff; Mónica de la Torre; Anahit Gulian; Gillian McCain; Yoshiko Chuma and Dane Terry; Brenda Coultas; Praise Fuller; Greg Masters; Christian Nyampeta; Anne Waldman with Fast Speaking Music (Devin Brahja Waldman and Georgia Wartell Collins); Christeene
December 6, 2025; 12:15 pm; San Francisco Premiere of Outrider
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street
December 5, 2025; 7 pm; International Buddhist Film Festival Outrider screening
Smith Rafael Film Center; 1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA
December 4, 2025, 7pm; City Lights Bookstore reading for Mesopotopia
261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA
November 24, 2025: Giorno Poetry Systems, NYC: Your Devotee in Rags Listening Party
November 19 – 23, 2025; Madrid Premiere! Outrider screening
Poetas Poético Film Festival
November 17 – 18, 2025; Vienna Premiere! Outrider screening
November 16, 2025; 1 pm: Outrider screening
Brooklyn Public Library LitFilm Festival
The film will be accompanied with a reading by Anne Waldman on Zoom.
November 15 – 16, 2025; Munich Premiere! Outrider screening
Cinema Werkstattkino
November 13, 2025: Outrider screening, The American University of Paris
5 Bd de la Tour-Maubourg
November 12, 2025; 9 pm; Paris Premiere! Outrider screening
Maison de la Poésie, 157 Rue Saint-Martin
November 11, 2025; 7 pm; Reading at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore, Paris
November 8, 2025; 6 pm: Outrider screening, Yonkers Film Festival
N 28 Wells Avenue, Yonkers, NY
November 1-2, 2025: Poets House, NYC
The Velvet Thread workshop intensive with No Land.
October 30, 6:30 pm: Off Paradise Gallery reading, NYC
Anne Waldman with Cedar Sigo & special guest Melanie Dyer
October 24, 2025; 4 pm; Outrider screening, 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.
October 20, 2025: Outrider screening, Pomona College
Claremont, CA
October 17, 2025; 7 pm: Outrider screening, The Poetry Project
131 E. 10th Street, NYC
October 13, 2025, 7 pm: KGB Bar, NYC: Reading with Charles Bernstein and Bob Holman
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 8, 2025, 8:30 pm: Celebration of Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez
The Poetry Project: 131 E. 10th Street, NYC
The evening will feature a performance from Cortez's band, The Firespitters. Denardo Coleman, Cortez's son, will be on drums. With readings by LaTasha Nevada Diggs, Lois Griffith, Kyle Carrero Lopez, Aja Monet, Tracie Morris, Quincy Troupe, T'ai Freedom Ford, Rosamond S. King, Tangie Mitchell, Jessica Care Moore, Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez, and Anne Waldman.
October 2, 2025, 6 pm: Celebration of Gertrude Stein, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC
Presented by 192 Books, Francesca Wade discusses her book Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (Scriber, 2025) with readings from Laurie Anderson, Charles Bernstein, Erica Hunt, erica kaufman, Eileen Myles, Ariana Reines, and Anne Waldman