THE MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING INVITES YOU TO A READING BY ANNE WALDMAN

Alystyre Julian's OUTRIDER is a cinekinetic portal into fast-speaking poet Anne Waldman’s  transcendent role as a visionary word-worker and cultural activist from the downtown New York City bohemian scene  with roots in free jazz . And flashes through the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church which Waldman helped found, and the Buddhist inspired Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, created with Allen Ginsberg,  to  the fellaheen worlds  of  Big Sur, Mexico City, and Morocco. Guided by ancestors of the Beat generation and poetic kinships with radical female musicians, Outrider channels  an ancient, bardic tradition—celebrating the thunderous power of poetry as a way of life.  With Patti Smith, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson and others. Executive producer: Martin Scorsese.  Sarah Riggs: Producer.

Anne Waldman—internationally acclaimed poet, performer, activist, and magpie scholar—has been a force in experimental “Outrider” poetics for over four decades, recognized in the lineages of the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain traditions while raising the bar as a feminist and cultural activist. Author of more than 60 books, including the classic Fast Speaking Woman, the monumental Iovis Trilogy, and most recently Mesopotopia, her work spans epic poems, essays, performance, opera, and multidisciplinary collaborations. Anne was a co-founder of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York and, with Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Colorado. She tours Europe in November 2025 with Outrider, a film on and with her, directed by Alystyre Julian, produced by Sarah Riggs, and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

Emma Gomis is a Catalan American essayist, poet, academic, and translator. She has been published in Asymptote, The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, Vice Magazine, Mother Jones, and La Opinión, among others and her chapbook Canxona is forthcoming from blush lit. She is the cofounder of Manifold Press, which publishes texts in experimental criticism.  She holds a B.A. in Musicology and Hispanic Studies, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she was also the Anne Waldman Fellowship recipient. She teaches at the American University of Paris and has a Ph.D. in criticism and culture from the University of Cambridge.