Greetings from the land of 10,000 dripping air conditioners! I come bearing news of Anne Waldman’s tour schedule for the rest of the year. You ready?
But first: a reminder . . .
Our sale of Anne Waldman’s Iovis Trilogy is still going on. If you’d like to order The Iovis Trilogy, you have until August 31st to get a remarkable deal on a whole Iovis bundle. With coupon code IOVIS3, not only do you get 30% off the cover price, but you also get The Iovis Bundle, a prize pack of goodies: a signed bookplate from Anne Waldman (hello, collector’s item!), an Ezra Pound broadside hand-printed in our office, and a Robert Creeley chapbook, Echoes.
You also get an entry into our Iovis mega-giveaway, the winner of which will be announced on September 6th. This giveaway includes:
- Makeup on Empty Space by Anne Waldman, a letterpress limited edition hardcover
- A selection of Anne Waldman’s books published by Coffee House Press, including In the Room of Never Grieve, Vow to Poetry, and Helping the Dreamer.
- One copy of our most recent poetry books: How Long by Ron Padgett, Click and Clone by Elaine Equi, Testify by Joseph Lease, and Becoming Weather by Chris Martin.
And now for the places where you can see/hear/experience Anne Waldman and The Iovis Trilogy yourself this fall/winter. If you live in New York City, Tucson, AZ, Berkeley/San Francisco, CA, Athens, GA, Berkeley, CA, Oneonta, NY, or Indianapolis, IN, you could potentially be in the same room as Anne Waldman! And if you need a reminder about why this is a great opportunity, please see our previous blog post. Her schedule of readings and talks has grown considerably and I just added a bunch more tour stops to our website. You can follow a handy RSS feed of Waldman’s events here, but a complete listing appears below as well.
Before we sign off, if you have seen Anne read in person, please share your experience with us by commenting on this post. We want to hear from you!
Anne Waldman’s The Iovis Trilogy
TOUR STOPS
Friday, September 1, 2011 @ 7:00 PM
Anne Waldman and Laura Wright
University of Colorado – Boulder
Atlas Theater, Atlas 100
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Department and the student-run Creative Writing Association. In partnership with locally-owned Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café.Thursday, September 15, 2011 @ 7 PM
Elaine Equi and Anne Waldman
New York University’s Department of Creative Writing
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
New York, NY
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 @ 7 PM
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
For tickets, call (212) 620-5000 or click here.
Price: $15.00
Member Price: $13.50
Legendary poet Anne Waldman will present a recital of new and selected pieces, including poetry selections from her new book, The Iovis Trilogy. She will be joined by celebrated cellist and composer Ha-Yang Kim with whom she has recently performed in Marrakech and Paris, and with her son Ambrose Bye, a frequent collaborator who has designed breathtaking soundscapes for her poetry.Wednesday, October 5, 2011
State University of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta
Location on campus TBD
Oneonta, NYWednesday, October 12, 2011 @ 8 PM
Reading with Charles North at the Poetry Project
The Poetry Project @ St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Thursday, October 20, 2011 @ 7 PM
Academy of American Poets Chancellors’ Reading for Poets Forum
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
New York University
566 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
Price: $10
For tickets, call (212) 274-0343 or visit http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19664Saturday, October 22, 2011 @ 10 AM – 4 PM (5 sessions)
Chancellors of The Academy of American Poets: Discussions on Contemporary Poetry
Through a series of intimate talks, some of the most renowned poets of our time examine issues central to poetry today.
- “Getting Away With It: Risk In Poems” with Marilyn Hacker, Yusef Komunyakaa & Gerald Stern
- “Humans & Others” with Juan Felipe Herrera, Kay Ryan, and Anne Waldman
- “Breaking the Line, Breaking the Narrative” with Rita Dove, Sharon Olds & Ron Padgett
- “Suffering through Joy” with Mark Doty, Edward Hirsch & Naomi Shihab Nye
- “Repetition & Refrain” with Victor Hernández Cruz, Carl Phillips & Marie Ponsot
Location:
New York University School of Law
Tishman Auditorium
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY
Price: $60 / $35 student tickets
For tickets, call (212) 274-0343 or visit http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19664Tuesday, October 25, 2011 @ 5 – 7 PM
University of Arizona Poetry Center – Helen S. Schaefer Building
1508 East Helen Street (At Vine Avenue)
Tucson, AZ 85721-0150
Exhibition reception for Soldiering / Dreams of Wartimes, a collaboration between visual artist Noah Saterstrom and poet Anne Waldman. The exhibit consists of a 45’ frieze of oil paintings, a continuous narrative painted by Saterstrom in response to and in conjunction with Waldman’s text.Friday, November 4, 2011 @ 7 PM
Reading at Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)
160 Tracy St # 4
Athens, GA 30601-1980
Sponsored by The University of Georgia’s Department of English
Anne Waldman will present a range of her own poetry in performance. She draws on ideas of “modal structure” and Sprechstimme (speak-singing) in performance.Monday, November 7, 2011 @ 4 PM
Anne Waldman public lecture, “Outrider: The Role of the Poet as Activist”
Georgia Museum of Art
90 Carlton Street
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6719
Sponsored by The University of Georgia’s Department of English, this talk or “feminafesto” about the role of the poet will draw on Waldman’s investigative studies, her performative poetry and creative work in “public space,” her poetics of empathy in the Manatee/Humanity project, and her anti-war Iovis epic. She proposes notions of “gift exchange” for artistic cultures and the practice of “sousvelliance.” With Q&A.Tuesday, November 15, 2011 @ 7 PM
Reading at St. Mark’s Bookshop, with appearances by Brenda Coultas and Anna Moschovakis
31 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10003Thursday, December 1, 2011
University of California at Berkeley
Location on campus TBD
Berkeley, CAWednesday, November 30, 2011 @ 12 noon
Anne Waldman in conversation at the San Francisco Poetry Center
San Francisco State University
HUM 512
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132Thursday, December 3, 2011 @ 7:30 PM
Anne Waldman with Ambrose Bye in a performance/celebration of her major work, The Iovis Trilogy
7:30 pm @ Location TBA
Sponsored by the San Francisco Poetry Center and City Lights Books
Price: $10Friday, December 2, 2011
California College of the Arts
Reading and performance with Ambrose Bye
Location on campus TBD
1111 Eighth Street (between Hooper and Irwin)
San Francisco, CA
February 8–9, 2012
Anne Waldman is the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writer at Butler University
Indianapolis, IN
Butler University
4600 Sunset Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Events info TBD
I’ll add the dates to my ongoing poetry calendar, but please note you have the year wrong on the last one.
Oops! I’ll fix that right away. Thanks, Ron!
-Tricia @ CHP
One time I saw her talking on her cellphone outside of the 5th Ave./34th CUNY Graduate building. The cellphone, while making perfect sense, had the effect of making her seem at the same time more human, and more legendary.
I am so excited! I took a one-day workshop with her at the Zen Center in Brooklyn last summer and it was the greatest poetry workshop ever, plus her performance at the end was so inspiring! Thank you!