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

Session 19-F
“The Book as Vibrational Object”: Anne Waldman’s Multi-Dimensional Poetry Work Both On and Off the Page

Organizer: Laura Hinton, The City College of New York (CUNY)
Chair: Kevin Killian, California College of the Arts (San Francisco)
Respondent: Anne Waldman, Naropa University

1. “Anne Waldman’s Iovis as Contemporary Feminist Anti-War Epic”
“Part 1: Women, Myth and the Androgynous Being,” Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo, University of Murcia (Spain)
“Part 2: Iovis, Ethics, and the ‘Master’ Problematic of War,” Dean Kritikos, College of New Rochelle (New York)

2. “Made Up on Empty Spaces: The Verbal-Visual Poetry Hybrids of Anne Waldman,” Laura Hinton, The City College of New York (CUNY)

3. “‘Late Work’ or Women’s Work? Anne Waldman as a Poetics Institution-Builder,” Maria Damon, Pratt Institute of Art (New York)

Innisfree’s 5th Anniversary with The Lune & Anne Waldman

Join us for a huge spring celebration of Anne Waldman’s Dream Book of Fez (No. 10) and Innisfree Poetry Bookstore’s five year anniversary.

Readings by the authors of issue Nos. 5 – 10: Reed Bye, Jack Collom, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Ella Longpre, Marielle Grenade-Willis, and Anne Waldman

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. (New Address)
Boulder, CO 80302

OPEN PLAN: CECIL TAYLOR EXHIBITION

Poetry and Music: A.B. Spellman, Anne Waldman and Devin Brahja Waldman
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 3 PM

Location:
Whitney Museum of American Art
Floor Five, Neil Bluhm Family Galleries
99 Gansevoort Street
New York, NY 10014
(212) 570-3600

The performance program for Open Plan: Cecil Taylor continues with poets A.B. Spellman and Anne Waldman splitting a bill in celebration of Cecil Taylor’s lifelong engagement with poetry and the spoken word.

About the program
Former Deputy Director of the National Endowment for the Arts and a founding member of the Black Arts Movement, A.B. Spellman is a legendary jazz critic, writer, and poet. His first full-length book, Four Lives in the Bebop Business (1966), chronicles the lives of Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols, Jackie McLean and Cecil Taylor, and remains one of the greatest texts on modern jazz.

A prominent member of the Beat generation of poets and author of more than forty books of poetry, Anne Waldman is co-founder (with Allen Ginsberg) of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She and Taylor have appeared on stage together at several cross-disciplinary events including the 1991 Tucson Poetry Festival and a 1994 conference at Naropa Institute on art, music, and poetry.

She is joined at the Whitney by her nephew, Devin Brahja Waldman, jazz saxophonist and the co-director of Fast Speaking Music, a poetry and music label in New York City.

Free with Museum admission.
Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. A limited number of guaranteed seats are available for advance purchase; tickets include admission to the galleries.

Does the Secret Mind Whisper?
A Celebration of poet Bob Kaufman with Anne Waldman, Will Alexander, David Boyce, and Kevin Carnes

Monday, April 11, 2016; 4 pm
Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street; San Francisco, CA

Free & Open to the Public

Presented by the Before Columbus Foundation, Oakland Book Festival, African-American Center, and the San Francisco Public Library.

AWP: Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Let’s Go Make Some Books: A Tribute to Coffee House Press founder Allan Kornblum

Chris Fischbach, Tree Swenson, Anne Waldman, Karen Yamashita, Bao Phi

Allan Kornblum (1949 — 2014) was founded Toothpaste Press in 1972, which became Coffee House Press in 1984. He ran Coffee House as publisher until 2011, after which he served as an editor and consultant until he passed away in November 2014. Allan was a hugely important figure in the small press movement that helped pave the way for the emergence of the field of small to mid-sized nonprofit literary publishers. Panelists will pay tribute to him, and talk about his accomplishments and influence.

Date & location to be announced.

Please join us for our ongoing dharma art event The Fire Monkey Art Salon. The Fire Monkey Art Salons are designed to offer a playful way to gather and celebrate! These offerings will be followed by rich conversation about art and ritual in everyday life inspired by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

$20 suggested donation
Cash bar
Shambhala Meditation Center Of New York
118 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor, Main Shrine Room
New York, NY 10011
(between 6th and 7th aves)

Featured Dharma Artists

Poet Anne Waldman, founder of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg and Diane diPrima. Anne was awarded the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for Lifetime Achievement in 2015.

Musician Steven Taylor a member of the seminal underground rock band the Fugs. Steven was nominated for a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for his work with Douglas Dunn, Charles Atlas, and Anne Waldman on Aubade. Steven currently teaches in the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University.

Calligraphy Artist Barbara Bash who collaborates with musicians, storytellers, and dancers to explore new forms of visual learning.

Vocalist Harry Einhorn, can be found performing experimental theater (The Cell, Robert Moss Theater, The Tank), directing/adapting/devising site-specific work (Highline, Central Park, Madison Ave.), composing chamber music (Rubin Museum, The Cell), singing in professional church choirs (St. John Divine), playing in bands, and teaching about Himalayan Art (Rubin Museum).

February 26-28

Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program

Feb 26^th Lecture & Reading by Anne Waldman

Feb 27^th– 10 m- 6 pm workshop

More information to come….

Reading for Frances LeFevre’s “Dearist Annie, You wanted a report of the Berkson Class…” from Hanging Loose Press
with Anne Waldman, Lisa Birman, Charles North, Ron Padgett, Ambrose Bye, and others

Letters from 1966 by Frances LeFevre (Waldman)

The Poetry Project at St Mark’s Chuck In-the Bowery
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003

Performance with Meredith Monk
Slides by Pat Steir
Music by Ambrose Bye

Details & specifics to come…

Institute of Contemporary Arts
Boston, MA

The Cutting Room Presents:
Max’s Kansas City’s 50th Anniversary Benefit: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Lou Reed
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Cutting Room
New York, NY
$60 advance tickets

http://tickets.thecuttingroomnyc.com/event/1031217-maxs-kansas-citys-50th-new-york/