Poetry Reading: Anne Waldman introduced by Nicole Wallace

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents a reading from the inimitable poet Anne Waldman. She will be introduced by the Director of Poetry Project, Nicole Wallace . Please join us on Thursday, October 3rd. Reading will begin at 6:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

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Poet, professor, performer, librettist, founder of poetry communities, and cultural activist Anne Waldman is the author of over 60 plus volumes of poetry, poetics and anthologies including The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press) which won the Pen Center Literary Prize. Penguin has published her books over many years, including Trickster Feminism, Manatee/Humanity, Marriage: A Sentence, and Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, among seven other volumes. Her album SCIAMACHY was released in 2020 by Fast Speaking Music and has been described by Patti Smith as “exquisitely potent, a psychic shield for our times.” Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University with some of the most celebrated poets in America, including poets of the Beat Generation. Waldman was the keynote speaker for the Bob Dylan and the Beats Conference in Tulsa in the Spring of 2022, and she wrote the libretto for the critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated (2024) opera/movie Black Lodge with music by composer David T. Little that premiered at Opera Philadelphia. Publishers Weekly has called Anne Waldman a “counter-cultural giant.” Waldman is most recently the author of Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press) and co-editor with Emma Gomis of New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive (Nightboat). And the recent book from Apic Press in Algeria: Rues du Mondes, 2024, translations into French by Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte. And the essay on the Beats and the founding of the Buddhist inspired Naropa University, with notes & poems: Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds, Trident Books, 2024; Forthcoming from Staircase, Activist Scissors in 2024. And a new volume from Penguin in 2025.

From the Poetry Foundation (Chicago) review of Waldman’s Bard, Kinetic: “Waldman is one of the most important and irreducible living American poets.”- Nick Sturm.

http://www.annewaldman.org/

Nicole Wallace’s first chapbook, WAASAMOWIN, was published by IMP in 2019. Their second chapbook, anangoonsag, is forthcoming from auric press. They were the June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. Nicole has also contributed to programs and publications celebrating the work and life of the late poet, Diane Burns, author of Riding the One-Eyed Ford (Contact II, 1981). Nicole received a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a Masters of Library Science in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials from Queens College, CUNY.

Nicole is a second generation descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and is of mixed settler/European ancestry. They currently live and make work on occupied Canarsee and Lenape territory (Brooklyn, NY) where they serve as Interim Executive Director of The Poetry Project and as a Board Member for Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po).

Host or Publisher Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation