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.

It’s a WIlliam S. Burroughs celebration!

Join Anne Waldman, co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, with collaborator Ambrose Bye, for a session of new experimental writing–political, Buddhist, feminist–with a text inspired by Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs’s The Yage Letters.

Waldman will also perform at Burroughs@100, II, the gallery opening of The Tickets That Exploded: The Art of William S. Burroughs, at 7 pm.

Join Waldman, too for Burroughs @100, III, Lake Forest College and the Chicago Humanities Festival present “Interzone: A William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash.” This event is in partnership between Lake Forest College and the Chicago Humanities Festival.

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Join us, as we celebrate our 40th anniversary, for an international gathering focused on one of the most dynamic and important topics of our time: compassion.

Compassion is ‘radical’ when it moves beyond ‘being nice’ or giving to our favorite charity, and becomes the very foundation of all our actions, the signature of our society. As a cultural imperative, compassion lays a path to a future free of some of our society’s greatest downfalls. It is the root of sustainable, positive change, and the key to meeting the challenges of violence, fear and suffering. Naropa has assembled some of the world’s most influential practitioners and leaders to explore this compelling topic at our first ever Radical Compassion Symposium.

Naropa University weaves contemplative practice into all our programs and degrees. The practices of mindfulness and self-awareness awaken us to our fundamental connection to others, and inevitably lead to greater compassion. The contemplatives, scientists, and activists at this event share their work, experience and insights on how to bring compassion into action, and make it a tool for personal and social change.

Register NowThe Radical Compassion Symposium begins Thursday, October 16, 2014 with an evening keynote at 7 p.m. A variety of keynotes, dialogues, workshops, contemplative practice and community sessions are offered over the course of the weekend. The Symposium will conclude at 1pm on Sunday. Pre-conference day-long intensives are offered on Thursday, October 16.

The Symposium will be held at Naropa University’s Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO. Pre-conference intensives are held at the Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St, Boulder, CO.

Join us for an unforgettable evening as the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets come together on one stage to share their poems. The event features Toi Derricotte, Marilyn Hacker, Juan Felipe Herrera, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Khaled Mattawa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Claudia Rankine, Alberto Ríos, Arthur Sze, Anne Waldman, and C. D. Wright.

Tickets: $15 general admission; $5 students

The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place

To purchase individual tickets to The Chancellors Reading, please visit the NYU Skirball Box Office online.

From October 2 to 5, the poetry festival in the city offers a total immersion in poetry with performances, lectures, meetings, workshops, concerts, etc. for young and old, amateurs and neophytes. Bains des Pâquis central location of the event, public libraries, there is something for everyone!

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Reading with Anne Waldman; and with Vincent Broqua reading translations in French.

Théâtre Typographique
2, rue de la Roquette
Cour Février
75011 Paris

double change et l’atelier Michael Woolworth
en collaboration avec les éditions Théâtre Typographique et joca seria

vous invitent à une lecture

de Dominique QUÉLEN et Anne WALDMAN

Atelier Michael Woolworth
Place de la Bastille

Entrée libre

Les textes d’Anne Waldman seront lus par son traducteur Vincent Broqua.

A l’occasion de la publication d’Archives, pour un monde menacé (tr. V. Broqua, joca seria, 2014) Anne Waldman fera des lectures performances au Mans (Librairie L’herbe entre les dalles, 8 octobre), à La Roche sur Yon (La Maison Gueffier / Le Grand R, 9 octobre) et au festival Midi Minuit Poésie de la Maison de la Poésie de Nantes (11 octobre). Pour plus d’informations, voir www.jocaseria.fr

Join us — Stand up for the Earth!

Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community
with 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Poetry Flash, and Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers’ Market

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Saturday, September 27, 2014; 12 noon – 4 pm
Civic Center Park, Martin Luther King Jr Way at Center Street, Berkeley, CA
FREE

The 19th annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival will take place on September 27, noon to 4:30, at Berkeley’s Civic Center Park, with our key collaborator, the Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers’ Market. It is held in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a global poetry movement.

We gather with intention, to celebrate, with poetry, music, and art, the spirit needed to fuel a movement, sharing compelling poetry while exploring urgent issues that confront the state of our planet. Please join us in our effort to “Stand up for the Earth” by supporting Watershed.

This year’s festival will shine with outstanding poets, writers, and musicians. K-12 student poets from California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Inside Out, and River of Words will present their poems led by their poet-teachers, with interludes of world-class jazz by The Barry Finnerty Trio.

Civic Center Park is transformed with beautiful Watershed banners created by Bolinas artist Arthur Okamura, a Creek Poem installation, and River Village exhibits with interactive writing, ‘zines, books, and magazines next to the lively Berkeley Farmers’ Market. There are tents and chairs, with recycled carpet for extra seating.

The annual Strawberry Creek Walk begins at 10 a.m., the morning of the festival, just inside the UC Berkeley campus at Oxford and Center Streets. The gentle trek features poets, a dancer, and a naturalist on a walk along Strawberry Creek as it flows through the UC Campus, then through downtown Berkeley on its path beneath the city to the festival.

And on the Friday before the festival, Watershed poets will visit Berkeley High School for a poetry workshop session with BHS students.

Your support is needed to help cover Watershed’s expenses. It is essential that this festival remain free, public, and open to all. Please join us on September 27, 2014!