Poetry Reading: Anne Waldman with introduction by Nicole Wallace

Thursday, October 3, 6:30 - 8:00 pm

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents a reading from the inimitable poet Anne Waldman. She will be introduced by the Director of Poetry Project, Nicole Wallace. Please join us on Thursday, October 3rd. Reading will begin at 6:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Anne Waldman is a poet, professor, performer, and cultural activist, known for her extensive body of work that includes over 60 volumes of poetry and anthologies, such as The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment. Recent works include Bard, Kinetic, New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive, and Rues du Mondes, as well as an essay on the Beats and Naropa University titled Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds. Forthcoming works include Activist Scissors in 2024 and a new volume from Penguin in 2025.

Nicole Wallace is a second generation descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and is of mixed settler/European ancestry. They currently live and make work on occupied Canarsee and Lenape territory (Brooklyn, NY) where they serve as Interim Executive Director of The Poetry Project and as a Board Member for Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po). Nicole’s first chapbook, WAASAMOWIN, was published by IMP in 2019. Their second chapbook, anangoonsag, is forthcoming from auric press. They were the June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. Nicole has also contributed to programs and publications celebrating the work and life of the late poet, Diane Burns, author of Riding the One-Eyed Ford (Contact II, 1981).