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

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

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

- Anne Waldman

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos toge…

- 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

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

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

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

- Anne Waldman