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Anne Waldman Reading/Discussion
March 25, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - March 26, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
Date: Monday 3/25-Tuesday 3/26
Monday:
2-4pm: Rare Books & Special Collections Discussion with Waldman (moderated by Joshua Kotin, English), Firestone Library, free & rsvp with jsoong@princeton.edu
5pm: Reading, McCosh Hinds Library, free & open to public
Tuesday:
2:45-4:30: Letter Press Workshop with Waldman, Hopewell, NJ, free & limited spots, rsvp with jsoong@princeton.edu
ANNE WALDMAN has been a prolific and active poet and performer for many years, creating radical new hybrid forms for the long poem, both serial and narrative, as with Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, Manatee/Humanity, and Gossamurmur, all published by Penguin Poets. She is also the author of the magnum opus The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press).
She was also one of the founders of the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, and its Director a number of years and then went on to found The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg in 1974.
She is a recipient of The Shelley Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Chancellor emeritus of the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent poetry collections are Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born (Coffee
House Press, 2016) and Trickster Feminism (Penguin 2018).