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Reading with Anne Waldman, Ambrose Bye, Clark Coolidge, Thurston Moore; Laughing Goat, Boulder, CO

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“So, You’re a Poet,” presents Anne Waldman, Ambrose Bye, Clark Coolidge, Thurston Moore, & special guests
Ted Berrigan 33 year memorial tribute

The Laughing Goat
1709 Pearl St
Boulder, CO

The ”So, You’re a Poet” reading series by Boulder’s ”beat book shop” has several Kerouac events on its poetry calendar. Poets who have performed in this venerable, decades-old series include the late Allen Ginsberg, Bernadette Mayer (who will be in Boulder this summer for the Summer Writing Program), Diane di Prima, Janine Pommy Vega, Anselm Hollo, and many more. The series has always been hosted by poet and Kerouac School alumnus Tom Peters, owner of the Pearl Street landmark ”beat book shop.”

The series was hosted for many years by the famous Penny Lane Cafe. In the introduction to Poems from Penny Lane Anne Waldman writes ”One thinks of the legendary Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich where the Dadaist movement was born, or the cafes and bars in San Francisco which spawned the Beat Literary Movement, also the cafe Metro and the Nuyorican Cafe, both in New York City’s East Village.”
The series currently takes place in the new Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, which has strong ties to the original Penny Lane. Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, Lewis MacAdams, and other poets read there during last year’s Summer Writing Program. The Laughing Goat is surely a Boulder literary institution in the making.

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Summer Writing Program, Naropa University, June 12 – July 9, 2016, Boulder, CO

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June 12 – July 9, 2016

Summer Writing Program, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Artistic Director: Anne Waldman

We take our title, Indra’s Net, from the Mahayana Buddhist metaphor for the ever- flickering interconnected existence of all things of our world (human, animalia, plants, robotic), and for how the palpable, yet transient and impermanent realities of these forms bounce off one another like reflecting mirrors. The net and interconnectedness are terms applied to internet practices and pressures, and we will track those lines, but we are also concerned with the more ancient sense of the net of living and dying in which find each other and our selves.

Caught by Indra’s Net, we are always already implicated in each other’s destiny, in the co-arising and interdependence of being. We want to invoke a contemplative awareness in asking: what are the parameters of such a notion? How can this notion provoke us to be alert to our increasingly endangered planet? How can we be mindful of the (forced) migrations that constitute so much of political life now? How can a conscientious awareness of our transience and interdependence sponsor a new care and generosity towards the stranger and our selves? Writing, the body, thought itself––nets of a kind too, texts/textures for sure—how many chords go on simultaneously, or are imbricated in our poems, in our fictions, our performances, in our collaborations? We invoke the mysterious and auspicious value and benefit of being in community together for a month at the Jack Kerouac School.

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Poetry Reading & Performance Celebrating the Poetry of Anne Waldman, ALA Conference, San Francisco, CA

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Special event Celebrating the Poetry of Anne Waldman

ALA Conference, Pacific D
May 26-29, 2016
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA

Poetry Reading & Performance: Anne Waldman, with Maria Damon, Laura Hinton, Dean Kritikos, and Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo

The panelists who earlier discuss Anne Waldman’s work in an academic forum this day will join Waldman for an evening group poetry event, featuring hybrid forms and performance-ensemble work. Bring a drink from the ALA reception and drop by for this innovative poetry of performance, multi-media, and collaboration.

Anne Waldman is an internationally recognized and acclaimed poet, scholar, editor, teacher, performer, infra-structure curator, and  cultural/political activist. She is the author of more than 40 books, including the mini-classic Fast Speaking Woman; a collection of essays entitled Vow to Poetry; and several selected poems editions including Helping the Dreamer, Kill or Cure, and In the Room of Never Grieve. Her monumental anti-war feminist epic recently out from Coffee House Press is entitled The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, which was a 25-year project. One of the founders and directors of The Poetry Project at St. Marks’s Church In-the-
Bowery in New York, Waldman also co-founded with Allen Ginsberg the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in 1974. She is now a Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa and continues to work to preserve the school’s substantial literary/oral archive as well directing its summer writing program. She has been a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Found ation in Umbria, and has held the Emily Harvey residency in Venice. Her work has been translated into numerous languages.

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