Anne Waldman

Birthday: 1945-04-02

Place of Birth: Millville, New Jersey, USA

Biography: Anne Waldman is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist. She has also been connected to the Beat poets.

Movies

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusett...

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Une semaine dans la vie de camarades

A road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Cultu...

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Poetry in Motion

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the fi...

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Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of Ame...

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Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The fil...

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William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Hu...

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Renaldo and Clara

Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring ...

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Aleph

Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of expe...

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Beside Myself

Step outside yourself, look back at yourself, whom do you see? That’s the question Bob Holman asks i...

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Outrider

Outrider is a portal into fast-speaking poet Anne Waldman and her six decades birthing vibrant commu...

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