Wednesday: Anne Waldman at Butler

From Butler University:

 

The Butler University
Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series invites you to attend an evening with

Anne Waldman
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

The author of more than 40 collections of poetry and poetics, Anne Waldman is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She was one of the founders and directors of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, working there for 12 years.

Waldman also co-founded, with Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist-inspired university in the western hemisphere, in 1974. Her publications include Fast Speaking Woman (1975), Marriage: A Sentence (2000) and, most recently, The Iovis Trilogy.

Her honors include grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and she has received the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award. She has twice won the International Poetry Championship Bout in Taos, New Mexico. She divides her time between Boulder, Colorado, and Greenwich Village, New York.

This event is free and open to the public.

Learn more about Anne Waldman:
http://www.poetspath.com/waldman.html
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/523

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Upcoming Visiting Writers Series Events

Simon Armitage • 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21 • Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room

Nicole Krauss • 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 • Atherton Union Reilly Room

Linda Gregg • 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27 • Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room

Maile Meloy • 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 • Atherton Union Reilly Room

Jhumpa Lahiri • 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 16 • Atherton Union Reilly Room