Anne Waldman

photo: Gary MacKender

Lecture on Poetic Symbiosis, Kelly Writers House, February 29, 2012

• complete lecture (55:57): MP3

Reading with Ambrose Bye, Belladonna* Annual Benefit, Hi! Art Gallery, New York, December 13, 2011

• complete reading (34:15): MP3

Reading at Jerome Rothenberg's 80th Birthday Tribute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, December 9, 2011

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 11, 2010

• Anne Waldman reading (51:07): MP3

Reading with Ambrose Bye at Sue Scott Gallery, New York, December 9, 2010

• complete reading (51:19): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna Reading Series, New York, September 24, 2009

complete recording (1:06:55): MP3

Reading from Poems for the Millenium III, Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 29, 2009

• Complete Reading (16:25): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

• January 26, 2004 (32:04): MP3


1. Introduction (1:02): MP3
2. Discussing In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems (2:37): MP3
3. Global Positioning (3:30): MP3
4. Government, politics, and language (3:31): MP3
5. In Memory of His Muse, dedicated to Matthew Shepard (3:45): MP3
6. Buddhist influence of Waldman's writing (4:56): MP3
7. I Remember Being Arrested (4:22): MP3
8. Discussing Allen Ginsberg (2:17): MP3
9. "In the Room of Never Grieve" (2:12): MP3
10. Discussing "In the Room of Never "Grieve" (3:50): MP3


• March 4, 2010 (28:34): MP3

Against the Slope of Social Speech, Starring Eleni Sikelianos, Directed by Ed Bowes, 2007

The Eye of the Falcon - New & Selected with Ambrose Bye 2006

1. Without Stitching Closed the Eye of the Falcon (3:29) MP3
2. Better for Us All- music with Lenny Lesser (4:14) MP3
3. The Marriage of William Blake (2:03) MP3
4. Dallas (5:45) MP3
5. Tanks Under Trees (6:55) MP3
6. The Posture of Her Arms & Hands (3:07) MP3
7. Devil's Working Overtime - guitar with Jason Wahlberg (3:19) MP3
8. In Bed with the Patterns On - text and voice with Lenny Lesser (4:22) MP3
9. Invitation to a Picture Hanging (2:08) MP3
10. Singapore (3:13) MP3
11. Thy of No Dire Greenhouse Effect - voice with Eleni & Eva Sikelianos (3:28) MP3
12. What the Policeman Told Me (3:00) MP3
13. Curse - music with Malcolm Marshall (3:17) MP3
14. Did Die - voice with Eleni Sikelianos (2:59) MP3

All text written and performed by Anne Waldman. All music written, performed and produced by Ambrose Bye
Mastered by Dave Drago (www.davedrago.com). Production by Ambrose Bye (hambrose13@hotmail.com)
(Recording courtesy of Farfalla Press and Gary Parrish)

Alchemical Elegy - Selected Songs and Writings, 2001

1. Duality (4:45): MP3
2. Paean: May I Speak Thus? (AIDS Litany) (4:56): MP3
3. Crack in the World (4:08): MP3
4. Jack Kerouac Dream (2:31): MP3
5. Book of Events (5:00)
   MP3
6. Excerpt from Pieces of an Hour (Dear John Cage...) (5:45): MP3
7. Kalyanamitra (The Spiritual Friend) (2:54): MP3
8. Notes on Sitting Beside a Noble Corpse (3:16): MP3
9. Excerpt from Devil's Working Overtime (2:08): MP3
10. Citipatti Blues (5:00): MP3
11. Pratitya-Samutpada (1:46): MP3
12. Stereo (4:08): MP3
13. Kali Yuga Blues (3:20): MP3
14. from lovis II (2:50): MP3
15. Verses for the New Amazing Grace (2:44): MP3
16. First Thought (for Rudy Burckhardt) (3:27): MP3
17. excerpt from Memorial Day (with Ted Berrigan) (5:00): MP3

Produced by Anne Waldman & Steven Taylor. Engineered by Tyler Burba & Steven Taylor
With the exceptions of tracks 1, 13, & 17, all pieces were engineered at the William Burroughs Word Virus Lab, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado

Battery - Live at Naropa 1974 - 2002

1. Fast Speaking Woman (5:43): MP3
2. Skin Meat Bones (3:24): MP3
3. Anarchy (2:02): MP3
4. Two Hearts (0:47): MP3
5. Number Song (0:32): MP3
6. Phone Call From Frank O'Hara (2:51): MP3
7. Kill or Cure (5:36): MP3
8. Corridoror (2:30): MP3
9. You're Like Ice (1:51): MP3
10. HD: Split from Hesperus (0:20): MP3
11. Battery (3:20): MP3
12. Abortion (1:52): MP3
13. Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms (1:44): MP3
14. Paean: May I Speak Thus (4:15): MP3
15. Cut Up: Long, It Took Long (4:30): MP3
16. Al Seuno (5:00): MP3
17. Writing (1:33): MP3
18. Born Again Blues (4:12): MP3
19. Furor Bellicus (3:53): MP3
20. Tibetan Love Song (0:57): MP3
21. By Candle's Light, A Bedouin (2:10): MP3
22. Pieces of an Hour (4:31): MP3
23. Field of Mars (6:59): MP3

All selections were recorded live at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and have been preserved within the Naropa Audio Archive. E-mail archive@naropa.edu for more information.
Battery © 2003 Fast Speaking Music.

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, April 15, 2003

1. Garden of Love (1:11): MP3
2. And Is It (2:13): MP3
3. What Nascent Irony (2:43): MP3
4. Global Positioning (3:08): MP3
5. Contra Niki(2:38): MP3
6. Rogue State (2:28): MP3
7. Cleanthe Giotto (2:31): MP3
8. What the Policeman Told Me (3:10): MP3
9. Dark Arcana: Afterimage or Glow, from Iovis 3 (20:13): MP3

Recording Engineer: Seth Laracy

Reading for the Belladonna Series, NYC, April 26, 2002

complete reading (25:35): MP3

1. Kontraniki (3:50): MP3
2. Global Positioning (3:35): MP3
3. Rogue State (2:25): MP3
4. Things Seen Unseen (11:20): MP3
5. The Garden of Love (4:40): MP3

By the Side of the Road

Anne Waldman (texts & voice) and Ishtar Kramer (harmonium & voice)

Anne Waldman

1. What Nascent Irony? (5:01): MP3
2. Garden of Love (1:19) MP3
   poem by William Blake;
   tune by Allen Ginsberg
3. Members of All My Tribe (3:50): MP3
4. Rogue State (2:23): MP3
5. Heaven Was Pitiless (3:10): MP3
   text: old Chinese/Tartar song;
   musical accompaniment: 'Nilleshna' theme by Lisa Gerard

Ishtar Kramer

1. Kalino Kalinche (2:52): MP3
   traditional Macedonian song, as taught by Mary Sherhart
2. Tamo Ledolu (3:53): MP3
   traditional Macedonian song

Recorded at The Naropa Studio, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80302
All Anne Waldman songs/poems © 2002 by Fast Speaking Music.
Recording and mixing by Tyler Burba.
Producer: Janus Issacantos-Maciuk & Fast Speaking Music

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, March 13, 1996

Complete Reading (25:41): MP3

Rattle Up A Deer, Live at Penny Lane 1989

Anne Waldman & Bernadette Mayer

1. Introduction by Tom Peters (1:49): MP3
2. Rattle Up A Deer (with Bernadette Mayer) (9:56): MP3
3. Iovis, Part VI (15:20): MP3
4. Ampabali's Song (Song of a Buddhist Nun) (3:15): MP3
5. from Not A Male Pseudonym (4:27): MP3
6. End Announcements (2:23): MP3

Sound engineers: Michael Zangari & Tom Peters
Recorded on portable 4 track directly through non-amplified music. Original master tapes property of "So. You're a Poet," Archives/Tom Peters, all rights reserved. © 2004.
(Recording courtesy of Farfalla Press and Gary Parrish)

St. Mark's Talks, May 2, 1985

• "What Takes?" (54:52): MP3
• discussion (38:35): MP3

Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, "Memorial Day," the St. Mark's Poetry Project, May 5, 1971

• complete reading (26:33): MP3


• read Michael S. Hennessey's "Recovering 'Memorial Day'" on Jacket2

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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-5 Anne Waldman. Used with permission of Anne Waldman. Distributed by PennSound.