Anne Waldman is the author of over 40 books and is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement. In 1974, Allen Ginsberg, Waldman and others founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, where she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and Director of Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. Waldman and her son Ambrose Bye perform together and have created a YouTube channel titled Fast Speaking Music, featuring music and poetry videos. [extracted from 2010 festival brochure]
