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Anne Waldman
12+ albums
Avant-Gardeamericanpoetryspoken wordnew york
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Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey and grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in 1966. During the 1960s, along with poets, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, Waldman became part of the East Coast poetry scene, giving frequent readings at the The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. She ran the project from 1966-1978. She has published more than forty books. Waldman became a Buddhist, practicing with the Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who later became Ginsberg's guru. With Allen Ginsberg, she founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado (Now Naropa University). She is a Distinguished Professor of Poetics at that institution. Waldman has also been on the guest faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and advisor to the Prazska Skola Projekt in Prague. She was the director of curriculum for the Schule fur Dichtung in Vienna in Fall of 1999 and has taught classes and workshops in literature, creative writing and performance for a number of other projects, universities, schools in the US and abroad. Anne Waldman and her work are often associated with the group known as the Beat Generation. Along with such poets as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg she became involved with John Giorno's Giorno Poetry Systems. Anne Waldman has also worked on issues of social conscious, in
