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  • Mesopotopia book launch
    9/2/25

    Mesopotopia book launch

    Anne Waldman and Haleh Liza Gafori

    192 Books, New York City

  • NSE #1130 | Ilka Scobie, Joel Shapiro, Anne Waldman, and Phong H. Bui on Martha Diamond
    11/14/24

    NSE #1130 | Ilka Scobie, Joel Shapiro, Anne Waldman, and Phong H. Bui on Martha Diamond

    Martha Diamond: Deep Time Poet Ilka Scobie, sculptor Joel Shapiro, and poet Anne Waldman join Rail Publisher and Artistic Director Phong H. Bui for a conversation.

    The New Social Environment #1130

  • An Outrider's Poetry & Resistance | Anne Waldman, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Valerie Hsiung
    9/15/24

    An Outrider's Poetry & Resistance | Anne Waldman, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Valerie Hsiung

    In this session, Waldman, the “poet revolutionary, poet revelationary, poet evolutionary,” speaks of her avant-garde positions and poems with academic artist and poet Valerie Hsiung and poet and academic Jeffrey Pethybridge.

  • Anne Waldman + Gerard Malanga conversation & poetry
    5/4/24

    Anne Waldman + Gerard Malanga conversation & poetry

    Anne Waldman + Gerard Malanga conversation & poetry moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf

    The Flow Chart Foundation, in collaboration with Second Ward Foundation, presented poets Anne Waldman and Gerard Malanga in conversation and reading their work.

  • Spectacle of Chaos and Love: Inside BLACK LODGE
    12/23/23

    Spectacle of Chaos and Love: Inside BLACK LODGE

    David T. Little and Anne Waldman with Vincent Katz

    Discussion & Screening

    Opera and poetry provocateurs David T. Little and Anne Waldman sit down to discuss their GRAMMY®-nominated BLACK LODGE, an opera/film hybrid that reimagines the operatic form through the fractured mythologies of artists like William S. Burroughs and David Lynch, with influences from glam metal and industrial music.

  • Sanctuary: Kay Gabriel and Anne Waldman on The Poetry Project
    5/19/23

    Sanctuary: Kay Gabriel and Anne Waldman on The Poetry Project

    Since its conception in 1966, The Poetry Project has been a sanctuary and platform for the poets of New York. Sitting together in The Poetry Project’s long-standing home, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Anne Waldman, one of the project's founders, and the poet Kay Gabriel, who helps run it now, talk about the project's heady early days and its deep roots in New York City's cultural landscape.

  • Advice to the Young
    7/7/21

    Advice to the Young

    “Writing can be beautiful, witty, and entertaining but it’s a serious commitment.” American poet Anne Waldman shares her advice to aspiring writers.

  • Celebrating A Visionary Outrider Life & Poetics—Interviewed by CAConrad
    6/4/21

    Celebrating A Visionary Outrider Life & Poetics—Interviewed by CAConrad

    We were so pleased to virtually welcome our friends Anne Waldman and CAConrad for a conversation around poetic practice, activism, and spiritual existence on June 4, 2021. CA interviewed Anne with questions offered from other poets and artists influenced by her life and work, including Hoa Nguyen, Raquel Salas Rivera, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Thurston Moore, Callie Gardner, and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs.

  • Enlightenment Poems from the Theragatha and Therigatha
    9/12/20

    Enlightenment Poems from the Theragatha and Therigatha

    More than 2000 years ago, the earliest disciples of the Buddha put into verse their experiences on the spiritual journey, collected to form the Theragatha and the Therigatha. At JLF London, Andrew Schelling and Anne Waldman speak to Maitreyabandhu about their translations of these poignant poems.

  • New Social Environment Lunchtime Conversation #41
    5/13/20

    New Social Environment Lunchtime Conversation #41

    Anne Waldman and Kyle Dacuyan, The Brooklyn Rail

  • Poetry as a Performance
    8/31/19

    Poetry as a Performance

    Interview by Kasper Bech Dyg for the Louisiana Literature festival in Humlebæk, Denmark, August 2019.

  • How art helps to wake up to the world
    5/31/19

    How art helps to wake up to the world

    Interview with Anne Waldman by Yumma Mudra; maelstrÖm fiEstival

  • Anne Waldman and John Freeman in conversation, JLF Boulder
    10/18/18

    Anne Waldman and John Freeman in conversation, JLF Boulder

    Anne Waldman and John Freeman in conversation: What are the sources, inspirations, contexts, and philosophy of the poetic imagination? John Freeman and Anne Waldman read from their works and speak to each other on the subject. John Freeman is a writer, poet and former president of the National Book Critics Circle. Poet, writer, performer, editor and activist Anne Waldman is an iconic member of the Outrider experimental poetry community.

  • Trickster Feminism conversation with Preti Taneja, JLF Boulder
    10/18/18

    Trickster Feminism conversation with Preti Taneja, JLF Boulder

    Anne Waldman in conversation with Preti Taneja: Writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist Anne Waldman reads from her new book, Trickster Feminism, an edgy, visionary collection that meditates on gender, existence, passion, and activism, and discusses her life and work in the context of today’s political and cultural climate.

  • The Secret Library Podcast
    8/31/18

    The Secret Library Podcast

    Interview on Trickster Feminist

  • Oral History Initiative on Anne Waldman
    3/14/18

    Oral History Initiative on Anne Waldman

    At the Edison-Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University

  • Anne Waldman in conversation with Kevin Young
    9/28/17

    Anne Waldman in conversation with Kevin Young

    Emory University, Atlanta, GA

  • Imagine: The Freedom to Dream
    1/22/17

    Imagine: The Freedom to Dream

    Interview by Puneeta Roy at the Jaipur Literature Festival. India.

  • An interview conducted by Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard
    7/19/16

    An interview conducted by Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard

    An interview conducted by Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard as part of the History of American Poetry Project.

    Paris, France.

  • Unscripted
    3/19/13

    Unscripted

    Interviewed by Alan Flurry at the Lucy Cobb House in Athens, Georgia.

  • Anne Waldman: Reading and Writing Long Poems
    1/2/13

    Anne Waldman: Reading and Writing Long Poems

    In our Poets Forum Chancellors Discussions, our celebrated poets, through a series of intimate talks, examine issues central to poetry today. In this video from Poets Forum 2013, Anne Waldman speaks on the topic: Reading and Writing Long Poems.

  • A Conversation with Anne Waldman
    10/12/12

    A Conversation with Anne Waldman

    Conversation with Sarah Messer for OnePausePoetry

  • Riggio Forum: Anne Waldman | The New School
    2/23/10

    Riggio Forum: Anne Waldman | The New School

    Moderated by Robert Polito, director of the Writing Program. Riggio Forum events are presented by the Len and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Initiative at The New School. Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, New York City.

  • A conversation with Anne Waldman
    11/30/08

    A conversation with Anne Waldman

    A conversation with Anne Waldman on gender and writing; her epic Iovis project; collaborations with other artists; Manatee/Humanity and more. With Marjorie Tesser. Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY.

  • ele:vision interview with Waylon Lewis, Boulder, CO
    6/26/07

    ele:vision interview with Waylon Lewis, Boulder, CO

    ele:vision interview with Waylon Lewis, Boulder, CO

  • Poetry in Motion 2
    1/1/82

    Poetry in Motion 2

    Performances and Interviews from:

    Helen Adam, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Robert Creeley, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Spalding Gray, Bob Holman, Rose Lesniak, Cookie Mueller, Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, Michael Ondaatje, Joel Oppenheimer, Peter Orlovsky, Pedro Pietri, Jerome Rothenberg, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and Philip Whalen.

    A performance and interview with Anne Waldman