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I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Both Experience Listener Myself Poem Want

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I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Details Dreams Engage Enhance Ethos Facts Follow Get Idea Names Need Notes Often Over Project Research Take Travels Up Worked

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The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Cause Challenge Change Climate Climate Change Fact Lies Limited Limited Time Little Little Time Nuclear Pick Planet Time Very You Your

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We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Bite Humorous Keep Many Motto Other Poetry Real Safe Some Things World

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When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Alternative Asian Attended Berkeley Collaboration Conference Deeper Enough Forms Influenced Inspired Mantra Many Me More Much Poetry Poets Politically Really Say Stuck Thinking Though Through Traditions Very Ways Were Who Women Work

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I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Call Longer Mantra Myself Never Poet Sometimes Songs Spoken Spoken Word Structures Word

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Trump is the worst. I mean, he is like a shape shifter. You can't nail him down. It is like the last gasp, the last bastion of old white males, of white supremacy and hegemony.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Down He Hegemony Him Last Like Males Mean Nail Old Shape Supremacy Trump White Worst You

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We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Books Chaos Library Literature Total Will Without

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I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

~Anne Waldman

Topics: Feel Go Guide Journey Kind Know Poet Poetry Reading Some Through You I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 2nd, 1945

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