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  • June 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 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, CO

  • June 30, 2026, 7 pm: Film screening of Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, introduced by Anne Waldman, New York City
    As part of the Allen Ginsberg Centennial celebration at Anthology Film Archives, Anne Waldman 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.”—CRITERION

  • July 12, 2026, 7:30 pm: Allen Ginsberg at 100, Poetry International Festival, London

    Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall
    Participants include Thurston Moore, Scanner, Youth, James Lavelle, Stew (playwright from Passing Strange), Gina Birch, Anne Waldman, Steven Taylor and others

  • July 14, 2026: London Premiere Screening of Outrider documentary
    Swedenborg House: 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, United Kingdom
    Followed by a conversation between Anne Waldman, Alystyre Julian, and Thurston Moore, moderated by Stephen Coates

  • September 25, 2026; 7pm: 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”. 

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