Former Academy Chancellor Anne Waldman reads "Anthropocene Blues" as part of Dear Poet, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month 2025. Students can write letters in response to this poem, and the poet will respond to select letters.
8–9 pm, hosted by Patricia Spears Jones:
Anne Waldman, Sara Jane Stoner, Tamara Santibañez, Anselm Berrigan, Car Lara, mayfield brooks, Anahit Gulian, anna moschovakis, Yaz Lancaster, Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough, Brandon Lopez, Nile Harris
Creative Music Studio Benefit Concert, Excerpt Anne Waldman and Devin Brahja Waldman, as seen by Antonio Ferrera
Segue Reading Series
Artists Space featuring: Anne Waldman No Land and Joey De Jesus
Poetics of the Multiverse | Anne Waldman, Rohan Chhetri and Reiland Rabaka in performance, introduced by Megha Agrawal Sood
A multivocal poetry reading where different rhythms and styles converge in a joyous celebration of imaginative possibility by addressing the world as it stands today.
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.
Please join us in celebrating the publication of Alice Notley’s new collection, Being Reflected On, a memoir in poems of her life in Paris from 2000-2017. Notley will be joined by another incomparable visionary and beloved Project legend, Anne Waldman, to whom Being Reflected On is dedicated.
Eleven poets from all around the world recite in commemoration of Refaat Alareer.
Anne Waldman, Sepideh Jodeyri, Karin Karakaşlı, Canan Marasligil, Sara Ehsan, Ali Sabati, Khadija Muhaisen Dajani, Reem, Rosie Marteau, Shira Wolfe and Hadi Khansari.
Poems for Palestine.
What counter-geographies and subterranean archives does the poet assemble? In their recent works – Village and Bard, Kinetic, both out with Coffee House Press – LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Anne Waldman trace related constructions of place and memory, the imperiled and essential wavelengths at the edge that propel and hold our communities across time.
Featuring a guest introduction by Jennifer Firestone.
En Carne Cruda tenemos el lujazo de entrevistas a Anne Waldam, una de las representantes de la llamada Segunda Generación Beat. Poeta, profesora y activista feminista, social y cultural. Su trayectoria como poeta abarca más de seis décadas y es la última llama que tenemos encendida y parlante de lo que fue la generación beat. Un auténtico icono de resistencia política y cultural.
A Punch in the Gut of a Star / Un Cop de Puny Al Ventre d’Una Estrella, a new collaborative poetry chapbook by Anne Waldman and Emma Gomis written in English and Catalan. The chapbook aims to show telepathy between two poets during a quasi-quarantine or what is colloquially referred to as a “covid-pod.” This collaboration on many levels is a reminder of poetry's power and its trajectories into true psychic shelter.
La poeta Anne Waldman actuarà acompanyada d'artistes locals en una sessió única que vol reivindicar la poesia com a eina de transmissió d’idees i noves maneres d’actuar.
Participants: Eduard Escoffet, Adriano Galante, Los Sara Fontán, Pablo Volt
Readers include: Anne Waldman, Samantha Albala, Edmund Berrigan, Ed Bowes, Zoe Brezsny, Lee Ann Brown, Ambrose Bye, CAConrad, Brenda Coultas, Marcella Durand, Carolina Ebeid, Jennifer Firestone, Tonya Foster, Lucia H. Gaxiola, HR Hegnauer, Erika Hodges, Serena Jost, Alystyre Julian, Erica Kaufman, Vincent Katz, Jade Lascelles, Rachel Levitsky, and more
Anne Waldman invited Nathan Wheeler to accompany her in a performance at Roulette Intermedium in December 2021. The livestream broadcast was a fundraiser for Daniel Weintraub's documentary on Pauline Oliveros. Immediately following their performance was a trio of Susie Ibarra, Claire Chase, and Senem Pirler performing Pauline's score "Thirteen Changes." The rest of the video can bee seen here: https://vimeo.com/646141244
Anne Waldman and James Brandon Lewis
Recorded LIVE at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church - Brooklyn, NY
Reading of Artaud in the Black Lodge
Poet.e..s.e.s. Festival, Paris 2021
Video and editing by Natalia Gaia
Sound mixing by Ambrose Bye
Thanks to Kora Bye-Anaya
Edition of “all rainbows in a brainstorm that we be so contained” by Hassle, NYC 2021. Artwork by Nathlie Provosty
Mexico City, 2021
Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents a Virtual Reading featuring Mark Wunderlich and Anne Waldman
Dia is pleased to announce the upcoming events in its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series.
Curator Vincent Katz has chosen a format that pays tribute to five exemplary poets. For each event, a small group of readers will pay homage to one of the featured poets, followed by a reading by that poet.
The featured poet for this event is Anne Waldman. The tribute readers for this event will be Emma Gomis, Patricia Spears Jones, Rachel Levitsky, and Eleni Sikelianos.
This zoom event honored the first anniversary of the publication of Anne Waldman's Mundo Aparte / Offworld and Ammiel Alcalay's new collection of poems Ghost Talk that is forthcoming with Pinsapo Press. Our guest reader Natasha Tiniacos read the Spanish translation of Waldman's poem "Stereo" from Marriage: A Sentence.
Poets Anne Waldman and Vincent Katz curate the 8th Radical Poetry Reading, featuring the poetic stylings of Laurie Anderson, Sherwin Bitsui, Andrei Codrescu, Wayne Koestenbaum, Julie Patton, and Patrick Pethybridge.
Created for John Giorno Poetry Day at the Pompidou Center, September 19, 2020
Anne Waldman reads “Trance Abyss,” a poem responding to the body of work presented in Lévy Gorvy’s 2017 exhibition, “Pat Steir: Kairos.”
The title “Kairos”— a propitious moment for decision or action—originates from Waldman’s poem, which is also published in the exhibition catalogue.
Video by Emma Gomis © 2020 Anne Waldman
The Conference "The Prolonged Death of the Hippie, 1967–1969" was held at the English Department of the University of Basel, Switzerland, 12–14 September 2019.
Introduction by Agnieszka Soltysik
Monnet Guitar: Tyler Burba
Entanglement & The Vortex is an improvised, collaborative performance with Anne Waldman on words/vocals, Will Alexander on piano, and Andrew Joron on theremin at the 2019 Reynolda Conference, Entanglements: A Conference on the Intersections of Poetry, Science, and Art, at Wake Forest University.
Denver, CO
(Anne Waldman poem begins at 28:38)
Internationale Poetry Biennale -
Schamrock-Festival der Dichterinnen 2018
Anne Waldman & Devin Brahja Waldman at 6BC Gardens Arts for Art, New York City
POETAS, organizado por Arrebato Libros y Matadero Madrid, celebró su 13ª edición con un completo cartel que contó con artistas internacionales como Anne Waldman & Fast Speaking Music.
Offworld is between, Corrala de Santiago, University of Granada, Spain
Reading from Trickster Feminism manuscript at Poets House, New York City
Performance of Acousmatic (dedicated to Cecil Taylor) by poet Anne Waldman during Other Minds Festival 23 – Sound Poetry: The Wages of Syntax. Recorded on April 9, 2018, at ODC Theater in San Francisco, CA. Anne was accompanied in this performance by Karen Stackpole on gongs.
Cecil Percival Taylor (March 15, 1929 - April 5, 2018)
From Don Yorty:
I met up with Anne Waldman on a Friday last April at her house in the West Village to record her reading from First Baby Poems, a favorite book of mine. Anne had just come from Penguin Books where she’d been preparing for the publication of her new book, Trickster Feminism.
From Don Yorty:
I came across First Baby Poems by Anne Waldman on my bookshelf not long ago and opened it to find an old Amtrak train ticket from the early 1980s—bookmarking the page with the poem, Sonne. I remember the first time I heard First Baby Poems; it was at a reading Anne was giving—maybe at the Gotham Bookstore—anyway wherever it was I was enthralled. What could be more compelling than a poet writing about having and raising her baby boy?
Devin Brahja Waldman - alto saxophone
Hill Greene - bass
Reggie Sylvester - drums guest
Anne Waldman - poems
Evolving Music - 'Justice is Compassion / Action is Power'
concert series presented by Arts for Art
New Year’s Day Marathon Reading at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, Tribute to John Ashberry & Patriarchus, New York City.
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University hosts the inaugural event for the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Global Language Justice 2017-2019.
Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye Present at the Third Annual Charles Olson Lecture
Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month
The 23rd Annual Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word / Performance Extravaganza, New York City
Beat poetess/priestess Anne Waldman at the Poetry Project's 43rd Annual New Year's Day Poetry Marathon, St. Mark's Church, East Village, New York City, January 1, 2017
Singing William Blake’s “The Garden of Love” to Allen Ginsberg’s tune. Washington Square Park.
Woodberry Poetry Room at the Harvard Art Museum. Cambridge, MA.
Summer Writing Program at Naropa University.
Boulder, CO
Poetry reading with Anne Waldman, Lee Ann Brown, Estibiz Encarnacion-Pinedo, Dean Kritikos and Laura Hinton. San Francisco, CA.
Anne Waldman reads an excerpt from her book Fast Speaking Music as part of Dear Poet, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month, March 2016.
New Year’s Day Marathon Reading at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York City.
WITH LOVE to Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Concert for Disarmament
Saturday, May 2, 2015, NYC
New York Society for Ethical Culture
with Devin Brahja Waldman on sax
Reading from the book "Not A Male Pseudonym" (excerpt) from Tender Buttons Press, book published in 1990.
JUSTICE, a poetry reading at the Bowery Poetry Club.
March 8th, 2015.
Organized by Stefan Bondell.
Anne Waldman, powerful doyenne of the Poetry Project, howls activism and spirituality accompanied by Devon Brahja Waldman, Jesse Smith and Ambrose Bye.
St. Marks Church, NYC. 1/1/15
Video: Thelma Blitz
True stories told live on the gallery floors, stories inspired by the art work currently on display at the museum. With Devin Brahja Waldman on sax, and Ambrose Bye on keyboard.
The Rene Ricard memorial was held at the Eldridge Street Synagogue on May 22, 2014. Speakers included Penny Arcade, Rita Barros, Stefan Bondell, Gretchen Carlson, Francesco Clemente, Patrick Fox, Larry Gagosian, Robert Hawkins, Richard Hell, Lisa Leibmann, Brice Marden, Peter McGough, Eileen Myles, Zac Posen, Luc Sante, Lola Schnabel, Stella Schnabel, Sur Rodney Sur, Anne Waldman, Karl Xtravaganza, Michele Zalopany.
Live performance of American poet Anne Waldman with Thurston Moore and Ambrose Bye. Concert that marked the release of Anne Waldman's tape 'Oasis At Biskra' on Taping Policies.
Dans le cadre de l’invitation à l’Université Paris Est Créteil de la poète américaine Anne Waldman (Programme de recherche « Poets & Critics »)
A l’occasion de la publication du livre Archives, pour un monde menacé d’Anne Waldman traduit par Vincent Broqua (collection américaine, joca seria)
et de Gadjo-Migrandt (Poésie/Flammarion) de Patrick Beurard-Valdoye
double change et la Maison de la poésie de Paris
Join the audience and listen to her shamanistic and subversive poems, spoken in a voice that is forceful and mesmerizing. This program is presented in partnership with Poem Present at the University of Chicago.
This program was recorded on October 21, 2012.
Performing Problem-Not-Solving in Ausland, Berlin
featuring Tomi Simatupang on fretless guitar
Ausland, Berlin
Anne Waldman reading at Counterpath Press, Denver, CO
Award-winning poet Anne Waldman read for One Pause Poetry at METAL in Ann Arbor on April 13th, 2012.
NYU CWS Events
PEN World Voices Festival: Translating Poets Alive.
Presentando a: Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Tracy K. Smith y Anne Waldman Traductores (estudiantes del MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish): Valerie Mejer, Claudia Mora, Edgardo Núñez, Florencia San Martín y Kadiri Vaquer.
Anne Waldman reads selections from her poetry with Spanish translations by Florencia San Martin
PEN America
Readings in Contemporary Poetry
Anne Waldman and Lee Ann Brown
Dia Art Foundation
Performing Texts is a special series sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that focuses not only on the way in which authors perform their texts, but also on the way in which texts themselves perform.
Poet Anne Waldman, longtime Naropa colleague of Allen Ginsberg, sings "Bardo Corridor" from her book "In The Room of Never Grieve" at the celebration of the re-release of "First Blues," Ginsberg's first collection of songs. Anne's musical accompaniment are Ambrose Bye, Devon Waldman, and Bob Rosenthal's son Aaliyah Rosenthal.
Housing Works Used Books Cafe, New York City, Jan 16, 2012.
Video: Thelma Blitz
Anne Waldman performing Go Down Moses at St. Mark's Poetry Project New Years Day Marathon Reading
Holloway Series in Poetry at The University of California at Berkeley
"Go Down Moses (Let My People Go)" in support of the occupiers of Wall Street.
Anne Waldman channels Allen Ginsberg at St. Martins-in-the-field reading 11/19/11.
Andrew Whiteman (AroarA) on guitar.
iPhone Video recorded by Ron Mann.
Poet Anne Waldman in performance at CINE in Athens, GA. Anne Waldman appeared as part of the Teacher-Poets Collective. Her visit was sponsored by Melisa "Misha" Cahnmann-Taylor, poet and faculty member in the UGA College of Education.
The event took place November 3, 2011.
Misha's PoetryCast © 2011
The University of Georgia
An historic reading of Allen Ginsberg's epic poem Plutonium Ode, at the Howl Poetry Festival, East Village, NYC, October 23rd 2011. Featuring Anne Waldman, Eliot Katz, Sahar Muradi, Zohra Saed, Sara Goudarzi, Bob Rosenthal, Papoleto Melendez, Chris Brandt, and David Henderson.
Anne Waldman reads a poem written in response to John Lennon's song "Tomorrow Never Knows" in the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse (Boulder, CO), June 27th, 2011. Junior Burke and Ambrose Bye on guitar and piano.
"Snapshots for the Life of Marie Antoinette" by Stacy Doris, with Anne Waldman; Ha-Yang Kim (cello)
Filmed in Marrekech, Morocco, May 2011
Film by Alystyre Julian
Anne Waldman and Brahja Waldman’s Quartet performing at Voix D’Ameriques in Montreal.
Anne Waldman reads/performs with her son Ambrose in Pat Steir's "Nearly Endless Line" installation at Sue Scott Gallery December 9th, 2010.
Anne Waldman reads/performs with her son Ambrose in Pat Steir's "Nearly Endless Line" installation at Sue Scott Gallery December 9th, 2010.
Backdoor Playhouse. Tennessee Tech. Cookeville, TN. Presented by Center Stage & The Living Writers Project.
Oil Kills Poets Spill reading in New York marble cemetery.
Anne Waldman, who according to Allen Ginsberg was his "spiritual wife," performed his poem "Howl" in concert with Matthew Hemerlein and a string quartet on July 23, 2010. The performance took place in Washington, DC, at Busboys and Poets.
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.
Red Noir was written by Anne Waldman and directed by Judith Malina. The play premiered at The Living Theatre in December 2009. Red Noir is a Buddhist Anarchist detective thriller, set in the shadows of the Lower East Side. Many greedy hands close a black market deal; a glamorous detective pursues a corporate agent with a values containing danger; a rogue lab technician follows them with a values containing hope; a chorus of anarchists brings sanity and peace to a world of strife and struggle.
The performance of Anne Waldman, live at the International poetry festival "Verso Sud 2009" in the beautiful location of the "Castello Aragonese" in Reggio Calabria. Musicians: Sergio De Luca, Massimo Garritano, Giuseppe Sergi.
The performance of Anne Waldman, live at the International poetry festival "Verso Sud 2009" in the beautiful location of the "Castello Aragonese" in Reggio Calabria. Musicians: Sergio De Luca, Massimo Garritano, Giuseppe Sergi.
Anne Waldman Reading at the Prague Writers' Festival
Poetry Performance by Anne Waldman featuring Johnny Evans on sax
Jewel Heart, Ann Arbor, MI
Anne Waldman shares her poetry with an audience from Eastern Illinois University (EIU). Doudna Fine Arts Center, Doudna Lecture Hall.
La poeta norteamericana Anne Waldman, junto a Ángela García, de Colombia, en la inauguración del V Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada, Nicaragua
Her presentation is extremely emphatic, emotional and pararational but we can understand her activist messages--such as, presented here, "Problem not Solving," her cry to end the suffering in Gaza.
“So You’re a Poet!” reading with Anne Waldman at the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse in Boulder, CO. Hosted by Tom Peters Jr.
la performeure Anne Waldman en 3 parties... avec ses traducteurs et interprètes français Marianne Costa et Pierre Guéry!
maelstrÖm fiEstival 2 - 4&5 avril 2008 Bruxelles - Espace Senghor
la performeure Anne Waldman en 3 parties... avec ses traducteurs et interprètes français Marianne Costa et Pierre Guéry!
maelstrÖm fiEstival 2 - 4&5 avril 2008 Bruxelles - Espace Senghor
la performeure Anne Waldman en 3 parties... avec ses traducteurs et interprètes français Marianne Costa et Pierre Guéry!
maelstrÖm fiEstival 2 - 4&5 avril 2008 Bruxelles - Espace Senghor
Memoria del Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín. La poeta beat norteamericana Anne Waldman lee un texto ante la audiencia del IX Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín acerca de algunos momentos de nuestra conciencia sobre la existencia en que ella que enciende, se apaga; se ensancha y se cierra, muere y renace.
with Mónica de la Torre, Edward Hirsch, Sam Shepard, Cecilia Vicuñya, Forrest Gander, Mariela Dreyfus, Anne Waldman and Clayon Eshleman, translator of Vallejo’s The Complete Poetry
St. Mark’s Church, New York City
"Notes on Sitting Beside a Noble Corpse - Light Breeze Stirring the Curtains, Blue - Faint Tremor of his Blue Shroud" and "Neuro Linguistically: This is the Writing Dance"
Dodge Poetry Festival, September 29, 2006
On February 12, 2002 the Lannan Center presented "Community & Cultural Interventions: Beat Legacies," a reading by Anne Waldman and Lisa Jarnot introduced by Mark McMorris.
Georgetown University
Anne Waldman and Cecilia Vicuna appear together in this heightened Poetry Thin Air cable TV show, wielding dynamic clashing aesthetics. Filmed by Mitch Corber
1995
Part of the Spectrum of Poetic Fire Series. Raw unedited footage. From the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Mades Moving Image Media Collection.
October 26, 1992
Irreverent, and yet still literary, 1990's "Poetry Circus and World Heavyweight Poetry Bout", held in Taos, New Mexico. That year's competitors were performance poets Anne Waldman and Victor Hernandez Cruz.
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
Anne Waldman reading "Skin Meat Bones" from the movie, Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Provided to YouTube by Virtual Label LLC
Light & Shadow — Anne Waldman
Big Ego
℗ Giorno Poetry Systems
Released on: 1978-05-26
From the album John Giorno & Anne Waldman.
Released in 1977 by Giorno Poetry Systems (US)
John Giorno & Anne Waldman
℗ Giorno Poetry Systems
Released on: 1977-05-27
From the album John Giorno & Anne Waldman.
Released on: 1977-05-27 by Giorno Poetry Systems
Anne Waldman: For The Voice Of Montserrat Caballe, Error, Sisters, Plutonium Poem, Billy Work Peyote, Sun The Blonde Out, Shaman Hisses You Slide Back Into The Night
From the album Totally Corrupt.
Released 1976-05-28 by Giorno Poetry Systems
Anne Waldman, during a sojourn stay in Bolinas up the coast from San Francisco, reads two poems: "Spiritual Poem for Jim" (opening with a citation from one of John Keats' letters), which she notes is "a birthday poem for Jim Carroll," and "In Ruins, a Dream," on October 10, 1974.
From the album Disconnected.
Released 1974-05-10 by Giorno Poetry Systems
This reading of Waldman and Berrigan's poem "Memorial Day" was performed as part of a reading series at 98 Greene Street Loft curated by the poet Ted Greenwald. The video was shot by Sandy Hirsch on the only video format that existed at the time, 1/2 inch open reel video, often referred to as Portapak, and like any video shot in this format from the late 1960s to early 1970s, it is now a very fragile historical document.
