Poetry Path Micro-Reading with Anne Waldman

Poet, performer, collaborator, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist Anne Waldman performs a remix of the “Denouement” section from Trickster Feminism (Penguin Books), featured on the Poetry Path in Battery Park City. Film by Anne Waldman, Ambrose Bye, and Natalia Gaia. Editing: Natalia Gaia. Sound Design: Ambrose Bye. Fast Speaking Music, Mexico City, 2020.

Anne Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey, in 1945. She is the author of over 40 books of poetry and a prominent figure in the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She is most recently the author of Trickster Feminism (Penguin Books, 2018). Waldman was the recipient of the 2015 American Book Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2012 PEN Center Literary Award in Poetry. Anne Waldman also received the Elizabeth Kray Award (“The Betty”) for outstanding service to poetry in 2019 from Poets House.

This event is part of an on-going series featuring poets reading poems that are excerpted on the poetry path. Posted on IGTV, YouTube, and our website.