ANNE WALDMAN (AUTOR) OUTRIDER: ESSAYS, POEMS, INTERVIEWS

Anne Waldman has been speaking about the 'outrider' tradition since 1974 when she and Allen Ginsberg founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa, a Buddhist-inspired university in Boulder, Colorado.

This book gathers essays, poems and rants, an interview with her by Matthew Cooperman, and an interview by her with Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal in an attempt to further articulate a sense of this tradition from Walt Whitman to the present.

 Not a dry presentation, this book is a fierce and loving look at what poetry can be. ""Outrider"" is an invocation of 'lineage' as a challenge toward examining the practice of poetry and the links of its history.

 This awareness of lineage encompasses both what has been inherited and what needs be passed on. Waldman's ""Outrider"" will be a provocative contribution to a post-millennium poetics.

ANNE WALDMAN: AN OUTRIDER'S POETRY & RESISTANCE | ANNE WALDMAN, JEFFREY PETHYBRIDGE, VALERIE HSIUNG

Award-winning poet and activist Anne Waldman’s life-work has intertwined poetry and activism intimately. With over sixty works to her name, Waldman revolutionizes form in her poetry even as her poems demand revolution in society. Waldman’s fierce championing of the “outriders” experimental poetry community has inspired her collection Outrider, a title that traces this tradition, and a documentary of the same name around her contributions to the community. In this session, Waldman, the “poet revolutionary, poet revelationary, poet evolutionary,” speaks of her avant-garde positions and poems with academic artist and poet Valerie Hsiung and poet and academic Jeffrey Pethybridge.

Anne Waldman is a poet, professor, performer, librettist, and cultural activist. She is the author of over 60 volumes of poetry, poetics, and anthologies including The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment, which won the Pen Center Literary Prize. Penguin has published her books over many years, including Trickster Feminism, among five others. Her album SCIAMACHY was released in 2020 by Fast Speaking Music. She is most recently the author of Bard, Kinetic and co-editor with Emma Gomis of New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive. She is also the author of the recent book Rues du monde / Streets of the World, with translations into French by Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte. She has written an essay on the Beats and the founding of the Buddhist-inspired Naropa University, including notes and poems, titled Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds.

Jeffrey Pethybridge is a poet, curator, editor and sound artist. His first book Striven, The Bright Treatise was published in 2013, and his second collection Force Drift, is forthcoming. He teaches writing and poetics at Naropa University.

Valerie Hsiung is a poet, performer, and the author of eight collections of poetry and hybrid writing, including The Pedestrian, The Naif, and The Only Name We Can Call It Now Is Not Its Only Name. She teaches at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.