Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945 in Millville, New Jersey ) is an American writer and performance artist . She is known for her experimental approach to literature.

Life

Waldman grew up in New York City and came into contact with literature through her mother. Encounters with authors on the one hand and musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Pete Seeger on the other, inspired her early on to question the conventional boundaries of written language and later to exceed them through performative qualities. In 1965 she traveled to California to take part in the Berkeley Poetry Conference. There she met Allen Ginsberg , along with other literary greats, with whom she had a lifelong artistic friendship. After graduating from Bennington College , Waldman returned to New York in 1966 and became deputy director and later director of the “Poetry Project” in New York's “St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery ". During the course of the project, she gave several public readings and became known as a “performance writer”. During this time she also began to study with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche , a meditation master of Tibetan Buddhism . In 1974 she founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg and Diane DiPrima , the first Buddhist-inspired school in the western hemisphere , where she still teaches to this day.

In addition to her literary work, Waldman was involved in numerous feminist , ecological and human rights issues. In the 1970s she was active with Daniel Ellsberg and Allen Ginsberg in the "Rocky Flats Truth Force", an organization that opposed the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons factory ten miles south of Boulder (Colorado) . She was also actively involved in the Occupy movement in New York and Washington.

Publications

Waldman has written more than 40 books. These include Fast Speaking Woman (1975), Marriage: A Sentence (2000) and Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born (2016). A comprehensive list of their publications can be found on their website.

Awards

Waldman has received numerous awards for her work, including the American Book Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award , the Dylan Thomas Memorial Award, and the National Literary Anthology Award . She also won the International Poetry Championship Bout twice in Taos, New Mexico. In 2013 Waldman received the Guggenheim Fellowship .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official homepage of Anne Waldman. In: Anne Waldman. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c Anne Waldman Biography. eNotes, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  3. ^ Anne Waldman: I am a poet who is driven by sound. PWF, February 6, 2009, accessed August 14, 2018 .
  4. ^ Anne Waldman. Naropa University, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Publications. In: Anne Waldman. 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Awards. In: Anne Waldman. 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  7. ^ Anne Waldman Receives 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry. Naropa University, accessed August 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Waldman, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Millville, New Jersey