Anne Waldman

**Anne Waldman** (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet.

Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey, in 1945. She grew up on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. When she was young, she met musicians Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, and Thelonious Monk. Later, this had an effect on the place of music in her poetry.

She got her BA from Bennington College, Vermont, in 1966. She helped to begin and ran the St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1966 to 1978. In 1974, she, Allen Ginsberg and others started the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Waldman has been given many awards, such as the American Book Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award, the Dylan Thomas Memorial Award, the National Literary Anthology Award, the Shelley Memorial Award for poetry, and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

## Books and pamphlets

- _The Basketball Article Comic Book_, with Bernadette Mayer, illustrated by Jason Novak, Franchise, 2021
- _Trickster Feminism_, Penguin Books, 2018
- _Extinction Aria_, Pied Oxen, 2017
- _Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to be Born_, Coffee House Press, 2016
- _Dream Book of Fez_, The Lune, 2016
- _Empty Set_, Overpass Books, 2016
- _The Iovis Trilogy_, Coffee House Press, 2011
- _Manatee/Humanity_, Penguin Poets, 2009
- _Red Noir_ (performance pieces) Farfalla, McMillen, Parrish, 2007
- _Outrider_, La Alameda Press, 2006
- _Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble_, Penguin Poets, 2004.
- _In the Room of Never Grieve: New & Selected Poems 1985–2003_, Coffee House Press, 2003.
- _Dark Arcana / Afterimage or Glow_, Heaven Bone Press, 2003.
- _[Things] Seen Unseen_, 2002.
- _War Crime_, Elik Press, 2002.
- _Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, & Manifestos_, Coffee House Press, 2001.
- _Marriage: A Sentence_, Penguin Poets, 2000.
- _Iovis II_, Coffee House Press, 1997.
- _Fast Speaking Woman_, 20th Anniversary Edition, City Lights Books, 1996.
- _Kill or Cure_, Penguin Poets, 1996.
- _lovis: All Is Full of Jove_, Coffee House Press, 1993.
- _Troubairitz_, Fifth Planet Press, 1993.
- _Fait Accompli_, Last Generation Press, 1992.
- _Lokapala_, Rocky Ledge, 1991.
- _Not a Male Pseudonym_, Tender Buttons Books, 1990.
- _Helping the Dreamer: New and Selected Poems: 1966–1988_, Coffee House Press, 1989.
- _Tell Me About It_, Bloody Twin Press, 1989.
- _The Romance Thing_, Bamberger Books, 1987.
- _Blue Mosque_, United Artists, 1987.
- _Skin Meat Bones_, Coffee House Press, 1985.
- _Makeup on Empty Space_, Toothpaste Press, 1984.
- _First Baby Poems_, Rocky Ledge, 1982, augmented edition, Hyacinth Girls, 1983, republished, BlazeVOX Books, 2008.
- _Cabin_, Z Press, 1981.
- _Countries_, Toothpaste Press, 1980.
- _To a Young Poet_, White Raven, 1979.
- _Shaman / Shamane_, White Raven, 1977.
- _Hotel Room_, Songbird, 1976.
- _Journals and Dreams_, Stonehill, 1976.
- _Fast Speaking Woman and Other Chants_, City Lights, 1975 (revised edition, 1978).
- _Sun the Blonde Out_, Arif, 1975.
- _Dance Song_, No Mountains Poetry Project Broadside Series, 1975
- _Fast Speaking Woman_, Red Hanrahan Press, 1974.
- _The Contemplative Life_, Alternative Press, c. 1974.
- _Life Notes: Selected Poems_, Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
- _The West Indies Poems_, Adventures in Poetry, 1972.
- _Spin Off_, Big Sky, 1972.
- _Light and Shadow_, Privately printed, 1972.
- _Holy City_, privately printed, 1971.
- _No Hassles_, Kulchur Foundation, 1971.
- _Icy Rose_, Angel Hair, 1971.
- _Baby Breakdown_, Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
- _Giant Night: Selected Poems_, Corinth Books, 1970.
- _Up Through the Years_, Angel Hair, 1970.
- _O My Life!_, Angel Hair, 1969.
- _On the Wing_, Boke, 1968.

## Related pages

- List of poets from North America

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Anne Waldman
- **image**: Gloria Graham Anne Waldman.jpg
- **birth place**: Millville, New Jersey, US
- **alma mater**: Bennington College
- **genre**: Poetry
- **movement**: New York School (art), New York School;
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
- **spouse**: Ed Bowes
- **children**: 1
- **signature**: Anne Waldman signature.jpg