Dharma Gaze: Poetry Reading by Anne Waldman
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Join us Thursday, October 29, at 6 pm, for Dharma Gaze, a poetry reading by Anne Waldman.
In advance of the reading, join us for a screening of artist Alystyre Julian’s portrait of Waldman, Outrider (2025), on October 21, at 6 pm.
This reading is co-presented by the Department of Asian Studies, the English Department, and the Tang. It will be introduced by Ben Bogin, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, and Maggie Greaves, Associate Professor of English, who teach a class entitled “Buddhism and Poetry.” This event is free and open to the public.
About Anne Waldman
Poet, professor, performer, librettist, founder of poetry communities, and cultural activist Anne Waldman is the author of over 70 volumes of poetry, poetics, and anthologies including The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011), which won the Pen Center Literary Prize. Penguin has published her books over many years, including Trickster Feminism (2018), Manatee/Humanity (2007), Marriage: A Sentence (2000), and Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble (2004), among seven other volumes.
Her album SCIAMACHY was released in 2020 by Fast Speaking Music and has been described by Patti Smith as, “exquisitely potent, a psychic shield for our times.”
Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with some of the most celebrated poets in America, including poets of the Beat Generation. She was the keynote speaker for the Bob Dylan and the Beats Conference in Tulsa in the Spring of 2022, and she wrote the libretto for the Grammy-nominated opera/movie Black Lodge (2024) with music by composer David T. Little that premiered at Opera Philadelphia. Publishers Weekly has called Anne Waldman a “counter-cultural giant.”
Waldman is most recently the author of Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press, 2023) and co-editor with Emma Gomis of New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive (Nightboat, 2022), Rues du Mondes (Apic Press, 2024), translations into French by Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte, and the essay on the Beats and the founding of the Buddhist inspired Naropa University, with notes & poems: Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds (Trident Books, 2024).