Posts tagged "Anne Waldman"

The Poetry Project (booklet, 1974)

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Recently unearthed from our collection is this 8″ x 9 1/2″ 1974 booklet for The Poetry Project, printed during Anne Waldman’s Artistic Directorship. The 24-page booklet, with cover art by George Schneeman, includes a number of great photographs taken at the Project, info about The Poetry Project and its staff [...]

Photographs of the North/Waldman Reading (c) Star Black 2011

Introductions for Charles North & Anne Waldman

Called by James Schuyler “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” Charles North is the author of nine books of poems, most recently Cadenza (2007) and Complete Lineups (2009); a book of essays on poets, artists, and critics, No Other Way; and collaborative works with artists and other poets. His newest collection, What It Is [...]

TIME-GLIDE: GOING VOCAL: 5 DAYS OF WRITING & RECORDING – ANNE WALDMAN & AMBROSE BYE

[ Tuesday, October 4, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] TIME-GLIDE: GOING VOCAL: 5 DAYS OF WRITING & RECORDING – ANNE WALDMAN & AMBROSE BYE
TUESDAYS AT 7PM / BEGINS OCTOBER 4th / 5 SESSIONS

“The best poetry gives me through its music a sense of incipient vision: the verbal music goes into a time-glide in my mind as if there were no distinction between the stresses [...]

Reading For Aimé Césaire’s Soleil Cou Coupé/Solar Throat Slashed

[ Wednesday, October 19, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Césaire (1913–2008), published Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slahsed), a collection of 72 French surrealist poems imbibed with representations of Africa as a mythical homeland, in 1948. His work advanced a deeper understanding of the black diaspora and the colonized condition of Caribbean people. Wesleyan University Press recently issued the only bilingual edition of this [...]

Charles North & Anne Waldman

[ Wednesday, October 12, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Called by James Schuyler “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” Charles North is the author of nine books of poems, most recently Cadenza (2007) and Complete Lineups (2009); a book of essays on poets, artists, and critics, No Other Way; and collaborative works with artists and other poets. North’s poetry has appeared in many [...]

Artistic Director’s Reading (excerpts) – 3/23/11

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Studying Hunger Journals Reading (excerpts) – 2/23/11

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Anne Waldman – “Crack in the World” – Artistic Directors of The Poetry Project Reading 3/23/11

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Artistic Directors of The Poetry Project Talk 3-23-11

On a cold March night of freezing rain, thunder and lightening, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles and Ed Friedman gathered at a table in the Parish Hall to talk about their time as Artistic Directors at The Poetry Project. The talk was moderated by poet and Monday Night Readings Coordinator, Macgregor Card. [...]