is an internationally known poet, performer, professor, publisher, and editor with strong personal links to the New York School, the Beat literary movement, and the experimental strands of contemporary American poetry. She is a Distinguished Professor of Poetics at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, a program she co-founded with poet Allen Ginsberg in 1974. She has authored more than 30 books, is editor of The Beat Book, and co-editor of Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School.

Anne directed the St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1968–1977, and edited The World Anthology, Another World, and Out of This World, anthologies of writing from the Poetry Project, which included work by three generations of innovative poets and writers. She has received numerous awards and grants for her poetry, including a 2001 grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. As quoted by poet Aram Saroyan, “Of all the poets of my generation, none has done more than Anne Waldman to bring poetry before the public at large.”