Anne Waldman + Friends

POETRY READING: ANNE WALDMAN +
short opening readings by Dean Kritikos, Laura Hinton, Lee Ann Brown
Celebrating the wild hybrid nature of Anne Waldman’s poetry

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

In conjunction with the American Literature Conference
Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero, Room TBA

There are few living American poets today who bring to our literary table the artistic achievement, influence, and multi-faceted artistic production of Anne Waldman.

Poet, multi-media performer, scholar, editor, teacher, playwright, feminist, anti-war activist, and innovator-builder of two major U.S. poetry institutions—Waldman has long been and continues to be into her 70s one of our most important and cherished contemporary avant-garde poetry figures. She is a verbal-performance powerhouse who has worked on countless stages and within multiple forms of poetry-hybrid collaborations as she struggles to reinvent genres and poetry itself through various new-media forms.

Author of over forty volumes of poetry, as well as well as books and essays on poetry and art criticism, Waldman is a legendary experimenter of the hybrid, multi-dimensional possibilities of poetry in performance, a poetics that works both on and off the page. She recently stated in an interview,”I love the book as a vibrational object. I also like to get up and activate the text energetically with my voice.”