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

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.

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.

Reading , Q&A and book signing for new book: Voice’s Daughter of A Heart Yet To Be Born from Coffee House Press, 2016.

Tattered Cover Book Store
2526 E Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80206

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.

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).