Literary Festival Poetry Reading

Featuring distinguished author

Anne Waldman

Accompanied by musician, Ambrose Bye

Thursday, October 7, 2010

12:30 - 1:30pm

Room 244

Anne Waldman is the author of more than 40 collections of poetry and poetics, including Fast Speaking Woman (1975), and Marriage: A Sentence (2000).  She is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the 2nd generation of the New York School.  She and Allen Ginsberg founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetrics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Waldman's work as a cultural activist and her practice of Tibetan Buddhism are deeply connected to her poetry.  Waldman is, in her own words, "drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act."

Her honors include twice winning the International Poetry Championship Bout in Taos, New Mexico, The Dylan Thomas Memorial Award, The Poets Foundation Award, The National Literary Anthology Award, and The Shelley Memorial Award for poetry.

For more information and to listen to some poetry readings by Anne, please visit Poets.org.

Books will be available for sale through Old Dominion University Bookstore.

This event is Free and Open To The Public.