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Join Anne Waldman for a reading and conversation at the Kelly Writers House
February 16-17, 2015

Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction — more honored in practice than in theory — between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other.

During the visit of each Fellow, a reading will take place on Monday at 6:30 PM. On Tuesday at 10 AM the Writers House will host a brunch followed by a one-hour interview/conversation; attendance for both programs is by rsvp only (rsvp to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu).

Both programs will be broadcast live worldwide on KWH-TV and both of the Monday and Tuesday programs will be available online. On Tuesday morning, you can participate along with the KWH-TV broadcast by emailing and phoning in questions. To participate (from a distance), write to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu. When responding, please specify exactly which program you are interested in.

In the Writers House Fellows Seminar, students will study the work of all three Fellows. The 2015 course is taught by Writers House Associate Director Julia Bloch. This year’s coordinator of the program is Lily Applebaum.

University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Join Anne Waldman for a reading and conversation at the Kelly Writers House
February 16-17, 2015

Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction — more honored in practice than in theory — between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other.

During the visit of each Fellow, a reading will take place on Monday at 6:30 PM. On Tuesday at 10 AM the Writers House will host a brunch followed by a one-hour interview/conversation; attendance for both programs is by rsvp only (rsvp to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu).

Both programs will be broadcast live worldwide on KWH-TV and both of the Monday and Tuesday programs will be available online. On Tuesday morning, you can participate along with the KWH-TV broadcast by emailing and phoning in questions. To participate (from a distance), write to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu. When responding, please specify exactly which program you are interested in.

In the Writers House Fellows Seminar, students will study the work of all three Fellows. The 2015 course is taught by Writers House Associate Director Julia Bloch. This year’s coordinator of the program is Lily Applebaum.

University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight:
A Conversation Celebrating the Art and Writing of the New York School

On the occasion of Joan Mitchell’s birthday and the recently published volume New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Rizzoli Publications invite you to a conversation with Bill Berkson, Larry Fagin, Ron Padgett, Allison Power, Carter Ratcliff, Jenni Quilter, and Anne Waldman.

February 12, 2015 / 6:30 pm
Joan Mitchell Foundation Education & Research Center
137 West 25th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY

Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Kindly RSVP by Monday, February 9 by clicking here: rsvp@joanmitchellfoundation.org. Space is limited.

For our first event of the new year, we’re thrilled to host renowned poet (and great friend of the store) Anne Waldman.

Anne will be reading/performing new work from recent books “Gossamurmur” (Penguin Poets), “Jaguar Harmonics” (Post-Apollo), new CDs, and will introduce the Naropa anthology “CROSS WORLDS: Transcultural Poetics” (Coffee House Press). She will be accompanied by her nephew Devin “Brahja” Waldman on saxophone.

Anne Waldman, deemed a counter-cultural giant by Publisher’s Weekly, is the author of over 40 books, was key founder and Director of the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church, and also founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, where she is the Artistic Director of its famed Summer Writing Program. Recent projects include collaborations with dancer Douglas Dunn, painter Pat Steir, and continuing projects with Fast Speaking Music. She was Guggenheim Fellow for 2013 and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her epic, “The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment”, won the PEN Center USA Award. She will be available for Q&A and signing books.

Devin “Brahja” Waldman is a jazz-inspired saxophonist, drummer and composer. He has performed with Anne Waldman, Patti Smith, Thurston Moore and Daniel Carter; he leads Brahja Waldman’s Quintet and is a producer for the label Fast Speaking Music.

The event is free, but seating is limited–please join us!

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Event date:
Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 7:00pm

Event address:
136 East Third Street
New York, NY 10009

Please note this event was rescheduled from January 27 to February 3 due to the winter storm.

The Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University is celebrating its 40th year on the planet. Founded by Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima, the vision of an interactive, cross-genre, contemplative zone for writing and poetics has flourished and thrived all of these years. Celebrate with some of the people who made and continue to make it “the zone” that it is!

Reading with Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Samuel R. Delany, Brenda Coultas, Bob Holman, Erica Hunt, Eileen Myles, Anne Carson & “Currie, Randomizer,” Lewis Warsh, Edwin Torres, Julie Patton, Fast Speaking Music and more tba.

The Poetry Project
131 E. 10th Street
New York, NY 10003

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1 – 5 pm

Join us to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with two panels on “keeping the world safe for poetry.” Poets will address, among other things, the war on memory, activism, cross-genre pedagogies, and the cultural legacies of Allen Ginsberg, Harry Smith, and Amiri Baraka at Naropa.

Panels include:

1-3pm: History, Lineage & Archive and Pedagogy
Featuring: Alan Gilbert, David Henderson, Vincent Katz, Rachel Levitsky, Eileen Myles, Jena Osman, and Anne Waldman (Moderator).

3:30-5:30pm: Performance & Outcomes in the Anthropocene
Featuring: Ammiel Alcalay (Moderator), Anselm Berrigan, Erica Hunt, Tracie Morris, Michelle Naka Pierce, and Anne Waldman.

A reading and performance will follow at 8pm at The Poetry Project.

Cosponsored by Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; The Poetry Project; the PhD Program in English.
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Free and open to the public.

The Center for the Humanities
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, The Skylight Room, 9100
New York, NY 10016-4309

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, the Chicago Humanities Festival brings together a motley crew of poets, writers, and musicians. Among those paying homage to the Beat icon and author of Naked Lunch are Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, Tony Trigilio, Davis Schneiderman, Don Meyer, Sasha Frere-Jones, and Jon Langford.

This program is presented in partnership with Lake Forest College.

Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60608

Chicago Humanities Festival Members: $15.00
General Public: $20.00
Students & Teachers: $10.00

Doors open at 6:30 PM, performance begins at 7:30 PM.

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Photograph by Allen Ginsberg, courtesy of Anne Waldman

As part of the William S. Burroughs centennial celebration, Lake Forest College hosts a bold collection of Burroughs’ art. The show closes November 9.

With exhibitions around the world, Burroughs’ art is receiving increased attention during this centennial year. The opening event of this exhibition will feature poet Anne Waldman and musician and composer Ambrose Bye, along with Burroughs estate curator Yuri Zupancic.

Then, join us on November 1 for the Chicago Humanities Festival and Lake Forest College presentation of Interzone: A Burroughs Birthday Bash.