Biography

Anne Waldman was part of the late Sixties poetry scene in the East Village. She ran the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, and gave exuberant, highly physical readings of her own work.

She became a Buddhist, worshipping with the Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who would also become Allen Ginsberg's guru. She and Ginsberg worked together to create a poetry school, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, at Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Anne Waldman is one of the most interesting, vibrant and unpredictable members of the post-Beat poetry community. Her confluence of Buddhist concerns and thought-paths with sources of physicality and anger is particularly impressive (did you get all that?).-GoodReads

Books by Anne Waldman

Bard, Kinetic
Bard, Kinetic
2023
New Weathers
New Weathers
2022
Goslings to Prophecy
Goslings to Prophecy
2021
Para ser estrella a medianoche
Para ser estrella a medianoche
2021
Songs of the Sons and Daughter
Songs of the Sons and Daughters of Buddha
2020
Trickster feminism
Trickster feminism
2018
Best Minds of My Generation
Best Minds of My Generation
2017
Dream Book of Fez
Dream Book of Fez
2016
Fantastic Caryatids
Fantastic Caryatids
2016
Voice's Daughter of a Heart yet to Be Born
Voice's Daughter of a Heart yet to Be Born
2016
Sweet-Voiced [Mutilated] Papyrus
Sweet-Voiced [Mutilated] Papyrus
2015
Cross Worlds
Cross Worlds
2014
Cross Worlds : Transcultural Poetics
Cross Worlds : Transcultural Poetics
2014
Jaguar harmonics
Jaguar harmonics
2014
Gossamurmur
Gossamurmur
2013
Cry stall gaze
Cry stall gaze
2012
Homage to Etel Adnan
Homage to Etel Adnan
2012
The Iovis trilogy
The Iovis trilogy
2011
Matriot acts
Matriot acts
2010
Beats at Naropa
Beats at Naropa
2009
Elders Series #7
Elders Series #7
2009
Manatee/humanity
Manatee/humanity
2009
Nine nights meditation
Nine nights meditation
2009
Red noir
Red noir
2008
Civil disobediences
Civil disobediences
2004
Fleuve Flaneur
Fleuve Flaneur
2004
Structure of the world compared to a bubble
Structure of the world compared to a bubble
2004
Dark Arcana
Dark Arcana
2003
In the room of never grieve
In the room of never grieve
2003
Radical presence
Radical presence
2002
War crime
War crime
2002
Vow to Poetry
Vow to Poetry
2001
Beat Book
Beat Book
1999
AH Allen
AH Allen
1998
Iovis II
Iovis II
1997
Iovis: All Is Full of Jove
Iovis: All Is Full of Jove
1997
Songs of the sons & daughters of Buddha
Songs of the sons & daughters of Buddha
1996
The Beat book
The Beat book
1996
Disembodied poetics
Disembodied poetics
1995
Iovis
Iovis
1993
Troubairitz
Troubairitz
1993
Fait accompli
Fait accompli
1992
Not a Male Pseudonym
Not a Male Pseudonym
1990
Helping the dreamer
Helping the dreamer
1989
Nice to see you
Nice to see you
1988
The romance thing
The romance thing
1987
Skin meat bones
Skin meat bones
1985
Makeup on empty space
Makeup on empty space
1983
The World anthology
The World anthology
1983
First baby poems
First baby poems
1982
Polar ode
Polar ode
1979
Talking Poet Naropa V2
Talking Poet Naropa V2
1979
Talking Poetics from Naropa In
Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute, Vol. 2
1979
To a young poet
To a young poet
1979
Talking poetics from Naropa Institute
Talking poetics from Naropa Institute
1978
Talking Poetics Naropa
Talking Poetics Naropa
1978
Journals & dreams
Journals & dreams
1976
Fast Speaking Woman & Other Chants
Fast Speaking Woman & Other Chants
1975
Sun the blond out
Sun the blond out
1975
8 from Naropa
8 from Naropa
1974
Fast speaking woman
Fast speaking woman
1974
West Indies poems
West Indies poems
1972
No hassles
No hassles
1971
Baby breakdown
Baby breakdown
1970
O my life!
O my life!
1969
Giant night
Giant night
1968
Lokapala
Lokapala
1954
Journals and Dreams Poems
Journals and Dreams Poems