Anne Waldman‘s birthday today, 78. (revolutions per minute!)
wishing her all the best for the day, a very happy birthday!
Her remarkable latest book, Bard Kinetic, a book of memoirs and observations, is available from Coffee House Press
Check out excerpts from the book – here (and here and here)
Nick Sturm reviews the book for The Poetry Foundation- here
Jonah Raskin reviews the book for The New York Journal of Books – here
She read from it this past week (along with Latasha N.Nevada Diggs) at the St Mark’s Poetry Project – see here
and earlier this year (alongside Latasha N. Nevada Diggs and Eleni Sikelianos) for City Lights
(Check out “5 Questions with Anne Waldman” (from City Lights) – here)
Here she is (introduced by Eleni Sikelianos & others), in December 2022, giving the prestigious T.S.Eliot reading at Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room – “This Eliot Memorial reading honors poet, performer, cultural activist and literary life-force Anne Waldman”
So many other projects (we can’t keep up!). We might note, in particular, her libretto for an opera, Black Lodge, (a collaboration with David T. Little – story & screenplay by Michael Joseph McQuilken)
Here’s four Anne Waldman videos, in celebration:
documentary footage from Backdoor Playhouse. Tennessee Tech. Cookeville, Tennessee December 2010
same location and with her son, Ambrose Bye
“Ginsberg and the Beat Generation” – discussion at the Jaipur Literary Festival, India, 2017
(with Kunga Tenzin Dorje – interview by Pragya Tiwari )
and finally! –