Poetry Workshop with Anne Waldman
DAKINI POETICS:
EXPERIMENTS OF ATTENTION
A Poetry Workshop with Anne Waldman
Saturday, April 14, 2 – 4pm
Jewel Heart 1129 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
How is poetry like hidden terma or treasure rescued
by the playfulness and imagination of the dakini principle?
Shapeshifting-trickster-feminine-energy
dynamics will be invoked.
And the question of how are we in creative symbiosis
with our environment will be explored.
This workshop will suggest a practice of how to work with dream, ritual, memory, montage, performance and collaboration, in the construction of a hybrid poetics.
Sliding scale – $20 – $40
Register early or pay at the door – [email protected] or 734 994 3387 x 223
Recommended – Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets)
and Vow to Poetry (Coffee House Press)
Recently deemed a “counter-cultural giant” by Publisher’s Weekly, Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist.
She is the author of more than 40 books and has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of The World Compared to a Bubble, Manatee/Humanity (all three books published by Penguin Poets) and the anti-war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, recently published by Coffee House Press this past Fall. Her CD The Milk of Universal Kindness with music by Ambrose Bye was also released in 2011. She has presented her work at conferences and festivals around the world, most recently in Wuhan, Beijing, Berlin, Nicaragua, Prague, Kerala, Mumbai, Calcutta, Marrakech, and Madrid. Her work has been translated into numerous languages. Waldman is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and has recently been appointed a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. She is the Co-Founder with Allen Ginsberg (who deemed Waldman his “spiritual wife”) of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University the first Buddhist inspired University on the North American continent. She is the artistic director of Naropa’s Summer Writing program.
Websites: Fast Speaking Music
http://www.wix.com/fastspeakingmusic/fsm
and Naropa University.
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Teaching
LAMP FOR THE PATH OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Join us at the Ann Arbor Center
For the Live Webcast from New York!
Saturday, October 13, 1 – 5pm and
Sunday, October 14, 1 – 5pm
Sharing Buddha’s unique understanding of compassion and wisdom, the great 11th century saint and scholar Atisha illuminates our steps along the path to freedom, capability and joy, clearing our way to total enlightenment. A revolutionary treasure in its own time, this grounding and accessible teaching is especially relevant today.
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