Three Rooms Press presents a birthday tribute to legendary Beat icon and postmodern trailblazer William S. Burroughs. The event will be highlighted by work from internationally-acclaimed feminist/activist and performance artist Anne Waldman, author and editor Steven Taylor, with fast-speaking music with Devin Brahja Waldman and Ambrose Bye, Burroughs excerpts by poet Steve Dalachinsky, plus a very special preview of DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS: Burroughs & Ginsberg in Conversation (forthcoming from Three Rooms Press). Three Rooms Press co-directors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.

William S. Burroughs was a Beat Generation writer known for his startling, nontraditional accounts of underground culture, most famously in the book Naked Lunch. Born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, Burroughs is frequently cited as a major influence on countercultural figures in the world of music, art, and literature.

$15, includes one drink

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (W 4th – Bleecker)
New York City

“This is an extraordinary time for writers as we face an expanding universe and our planet struggles with the destructive carbon footprint of the human. We will consider the rhizome of our interconnectedness, and find generative ways to write through chaos and negativity.This is a poetry/hybrid workshop for all curious writers. We will immerse ourselves in “experiments of attention” engaging memory, dream, documentary poetics, agit prop, erasure, cut-up, performance, and collaboration. We will cross genres and genders of possibility. And the linguistic possibility of shifting identity and focus.Inspiration and reference will be given to modernist, and post-mod contemporary writers associated with the Outrider tradition. We will discuss archive, artistic-community, the 100 year project and what it means to be contemporary with one’s time. Writing, discussion, critique.”

Date: Saturday, December 2
Time: 11AM – 5PM
Location: Media Arts Lounge, 2nd Floor Humanities Building
Long Island University
1 University Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11201
Lunch will be served.

Each workshop costs $200. To register, please send us a short cover letter describing your experiences with writing Poetry/Fiction, and a writing sample of 3-5 pages to masterclass.liubrooklyn@gmail.com. Seats are limited.

ARTAUD AND THE BLACK LODGE

Music by David T. Little / Libretto by Anne Waldman
Written for the LA based band Timur and The Dime Museum

Thursday, August 10 / 8:30pm
Friday, August 11 / 8:30pm
Saturday, August 12 / 8:30pm

REDCAT
631 W 2nd St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

TICKETS

Artaud in the Black Lodge is a contemporary work of music-theatre exploring the imagined psychic connections among French poet and director Antonin Artaud, known for his theory The Theatre of Cruelty; Beat-generation and post-modernist author William S. Burroughs; and filmmaker David Lynch, known for, among other things, the television series “Twin Peaks”, and the award-winning film “Blue Velvet”.

The annual NOW Festival transforms REDCAT into a vital laboratory for the creation of new contemporary performances. This year’s festival launches nine new works by Los Angeles artists who invent hybrid artistic disciplines, re-imagine traditions and confront urgent issues.

www.bethmorrisonprojects.org

June 11 – July 1, 2017
Naropa University, Boulder, CO

The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Program: “The New Weathers”

The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors, and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events, and more.

In dialogue with renowned practitioners, students engage in the composition of poetry, prose fiction, cross-genre possibilities, inter-arts, translation, and writing for performance. Participants work in daily contact with some of the most accomplished and notoriously provocative writers of our time, meeting individually and in small groups, so that both beginning and experienced writers find equal challenge in the program.

All four weeks (or any combination of weeks) are open to any interested participant for noncredit. Students from other institutions or degree programs may also elect to attend for undergraduate or graduate credit.

Artistic Director and Curator: Anne Waldman
SWP Director: Jeffrey Pethybridge

Reading and performance with Fast Speaking Music, Anne Waldman, and Ronaldo Wilson
Naropa University Summer Writing Program

7:30 pm
Performing Arts Center (PAC)
2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder
Free and open to the public

For a complete calendar of Summer Writing Program readings, click here.

Festival Force Arcane, Brussels

May 11-14, 2017

Anne Waldman (USA) . Julie Patton (USA) . D’ de Kabal (FR) . Serge Pey (FR) . Chiara Mulas (IT) . Michel Mathieu (BE-FR) . Laurence Vielle (BE) . Els Moors (BE) . Anne Kawala (FR) . NATYOT (FR) . Pierre Guéry (FR) . Gioia Kayaga (BE) . Lisette Lombé (BE) . Marco Parente (IT) . Vincenzo Vasi (IT) . Valeria Sturba (IT) . Mary M (BE) . Lisette Lombé (BE) . Alice Macia (BE) . Nadine Baboy (BE) . Youri Botterman (BE) . Maïa Xuan May Blondeau (BE) . Nganji Laeh (CG- BE) . Sophie Magerat (BE) . Samia El Ouazzani (FR) . Marc Galo (BE)

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Please join The Poetry Project as we launch our first ever gala in celebration of our 50th Anniversary. The gala will honor poet and former Artistic Director of The Poetry Project, Anne Waldman. With performances by Laurie Anderson, Yoshiko Chuma, and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs.

Click here for more information and tickets.

7 – 8 pm // Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres 
8 – 9 pm // Toast by Ron Padgett and performances, hosted by Bob Holman
9:30 pm – midnight // After party with DJ A. Radovski

Anne Waldman has published more than 40 books of poetry, including the monumental feminist epic, The Iovis Trilogy (Coffee House Press, 2011). She is a poet and teacher, and with Allen Ginsberg co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. She was the Artistic Director of The Poetry Project from 1968-1978. Over the course of her career, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist. To learn more, visit her website: annewaldman.org

Laurie Anderson is a performance artist, composer, and writer whose work explores a remarkable range of media and subject matter.

Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s.

A writer, vocalist and sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). She was born and raised in Harlem.

St Marks Church In-the-Bowery
131 E 10th Street
New York, NY 10003

Acclaimed New York poet and activist Anne Waldman presents two public events at Pensacola State College April 21 and 22.

She conducts a free, open poetry workshop, “Exploring the Poetry Rhizome: Our Interconnected Imaginations,” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, April 21, at Pensacola State’s Chadbourne Library, Building 20, Room 2051.

However, tickets are required for Waldman’s presentation, “Makeup on Empty Space: Poetry in Performance,” at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 22, at Pensacola State’s Ashmore Auditorium, Building 8. For ticket reservations and information, call the Lyceum Box Office at 850-484-1847.

Recognized in the lineage of Whitman and Ginsberg, and in the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry, Waldman’s work is energetic, passionate, panoramic and fierce at times.

She has authored more than 40 books and, along with Allen Ginsberg, co-founded the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Waldman’s appearances are co-sponsored by the West Florida Literary Federation and Pensacola State College.

Tickets for the April 22 performance are $11, general admission; $9, seniors, non-PSC students and children; $7, PSC Alumni Association, PSC Seniors Club, PSC faculty and staff; and free for PSC students.

Purchase tickets online at www.pensacolastate.edu/lyceum or at the Lyceum Box Office, Building 8, Room 861, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets also are available at the door one hour before a performance.

More information available here.

Pensacola State College
Pensacola, Florida

Acclaimed New York poet and activist Anne Waldman presents two public events at Pensacola State College April 21 and 22.

She conducts a free, open poetry workshop, “Exploring the Poetry Rhizome: Our Interconnected Imaginations,” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, April 21, at Pensacola State’s Chadbourne Library, Building 20, Room 2051.

However, tickets are required for Waldman’s presentation, “Makeup on Empty Space: Poetry in Performance,” at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 22, at Pensacola State’s Ashmore Auditorium, Building 8. For ticket reservations and information, call the Lyceum Box Office at 850-484-1847.

Recognized in the lineage of Whitman and Ginsberg, and in the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry, Waldman’s work is energetic, passionate, panoramic and fierce at times.

She has authored more than 40 books and, along with Allen Ginsberg, co-founded the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Waldman’s appearances are co-sponsored by the West Florida Literary Federation and Pensacola State College.

Tickets for the April 22 performance are $11, general admission; $9, seniors, non-PSC students and children; $7, PSC Alumni Association, PSC Seniors Club, PSC faculty and staff; and free for PSC students.

Purchase tickets online at www.pensacolastate.edu/lyceum or at the Lyceum Box Office, Building 8, Room 861, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets also are available at the door one hour before a performance.

More information available here.

Pensacola State College
Pensacola, Florida

Casa Del Lago literature festival

POESIA EN VOZ ALTA
Mexico City, Mexico
Curated by Anne Waldman

More details & specifics to come…

March 28 – April 2, 2017