Internationally recognized and acclaimed poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community, a culture she has helped create and nurture for over four decades as writer, editor, teacher, performer, magpie scholar, infra-structure curator, and cultural/political activist. Her poetry is recognized in the lineages of the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry. But has raised the bar as a feminist, activist and powerful performer. She has read in the streets as well as numerous larger venues such as the Dodge Literary Festival in the USA and the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, the T.S. Eliot Memorial Foundation at Harvard University, and continues to teach poetics all over the world. She remains a highly original “open field investigator” of consciousness, committed to the possibilities of radical shifts of language and states of mind to create new modal structures and montages of attention. Her work is prophetic, multidisciplinary, energetic, passionate, panoramic, fierce at times. She was one of the founders and directors of The Poetry Project at St. Marks, working there for twelve years. She also co-founded with—Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima—the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired University in the western hemisphere. She is the author of more than 60 books, including the mini-classic Fast Speaking Woman, published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books in San Francisco; a new collection of essays, interviews, letters, and poems entitled Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press, 2023); as well as her classic, Vow to Poetry. Penguin has published her books over many years, including Manatee/Humanity, Marriage: A Sentence, and Trickster Feminism.

Recent publications include Rues du Monde, English and French (Apic Press, Algeria 2024), Para Ser Estrella a Medianoche, English and Spanish, (Arrebato Libros, Madrid 2021), New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive, co-edited with Emma Gomis (Nightboat, 2022), and The Velvet Wire with No Land (Granary Books, Forthcoming 2024).