Riggio Forum: Anne Waldman | The New School

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Well-known New York poet and activist Anne Waldman reads from and discusses her recent book, Manatee/Humanity (Penguin, 2009), and ongoing project, Iovis: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. Her son, pianist Ambrose Bye, performs as well.

In close association with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and others, Anne Waldman directed the St. Marks Poetry Project from 1966 until 1978. She founded, with Ginsberg, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Colorado, where she is currently director of the Writing and Poetics MFA program. Waldman has received many awards and honors for her poetry, including the Dylan Thomas Memorial Award, Poets Foundation Award, and National Literary Anthology Award. She edited the anthologies The Beat Book and Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School.

Musician and composer Ambrose Bye is the son of poets Anne Waldman and Reed Bye. He grew up in the environment of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, counting Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs as poetic godfathers. Bye has performed on stage with the poets Anne Waldman and Bob Holman. He accompanied Anne Waldman at the Boulder Theatres Music and Poetry for Progressives, which was headlined by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Jello Biafra. Bye is working on a new project with the poet Amiri Baraka. His CD Matching Half was released in 2009.

Moderated by Robert Polito, director of the Writing Program. Riggio Forum events are presented by the Len and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Initiative at The New School.
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* Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor. 02/23/2010 6:30 p.m.

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[shoshana2025]

ann has been so closely matched to so many meaningless activities.

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