(Full name Anne Lesley Waldman) American poet, performance artist, and editor.
Anne Waldman is best known as a dynamic, performing poet who actively seeks to increase the popularity of poetry readings among the general public. A professor at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, since 1974, Waldman has also toured as a performer in North America, Europe, and South America. According to Ann Charters, Waldman’s “poetry exhibits the open-form aesthetic often found in Beat writing, since she uses the literary methods and practices of spontaneous composition, collage, cut-up, and dream and journal investigations in her own work.Waldman is, however, more often characterized as a member of the community of younger East Side New York City poets than she is called a Beat writer.”
Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey, in 1945 and raised on McDougal Street in New York’s Greenwich Village. Both of her parents were involved with literature, teaching and translating poetry and writing magazine articles. Waldman became fond of poetry at an early age and was drawn to the Beat Generation poets she encountered on the streets of New York City. She attended Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied with Howard Nemerov, Bernard Malamud, and Stanley Edgar Hyman; during the summer of 1965, Waldman attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference and subsequently determined that she wished to become a poet.
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