16 Facts About Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman was born on April 2,1945 and is an American poet.

Anne Waldman has been connected to the Beat Generation poets.

Anne Waldman has been a vocal proponent for feminist, environmental, and human rights causes; an active participant in Poets Against the War; and she has helped organize protests in New York and Washington, DC Waldman says that her life's work is to "keep the world safe for poetry".

Anne Waldman married Reed Bye in 1980, and their son, Edwin Ambrose Bye, was born on October 21,1980.

In 1974, with Trungpa, Ginsberg, and others, Anne Waldman founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and the Director of Naropa's celebrated Summer Writing Program.

Anne Waldman reveled in the experience, and she often thought of recreating the poetry caravan.

Anne Waldman is particularly interested in the performance of her poetry: she considers performance a "ritualized event in time", and she expresses the energy of her poetry through exuberant breathing, chanting, singing, and movement.

Anne Waldman's poems have been translated into French, Italian, German, Turkish, Spanish, and Chinese.

Anne Waldman is the editor of several volumes relating to modern, postmodern, and contemporary poetry.

Anne Waldman has been a Fellow at the Emily Harvey Foundation and the Bellagio Center in Italy.

Anne Waldman has held residencies at the Christian Woman's University of Tokyo ; the Schule fur Dichtung in Vienna ; the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Anne Waldman has served as an advisor to the Prazska Skola Projekt in Prague, the Study Abroad on the Bowery, and has been a faculty member in the New England College Low Residency MFA Program.

Anne Waldman is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Contemporary Artists Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation.

Anne Waldman won the International Poetry Championship Bout in Taos, New Mexico, twice.

In 2011, Anne Waldman was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Years in the making, a feature-length documentary about Anne Waldman premiered in April 2025 at Anthology Film Archives in New York.