I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as i…

- Anne Waldman

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live…

- Anne Waldman

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Ho…

- Anne Waldman

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

- Anne Waldman

We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to make things with words and images a…

- Anne Waldman

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheritin…

- Anne Waldman

Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psycholo…

- Anne Waldman

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

- Anne Waldman

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting…

- Anne Waldman