Anne Waldman and Afaa Weaver will read selections of their poetry from 8pm to 9pm in the Lowell High School Auditorium.

They will be taking the stage directly following Robert Pinsky and Louise Gluck: http://pinskygluck.eventbrite.com/  (reserve your ticket now!)

Anne Waldman has been a prominent figure in beat poetry. From 1966 until 1978 she ran the St. Mark's Poetry Project, reading with fellow poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. Immediately following her departure from St. Mark's, she and Ginsberg founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She has published over forty books of poetry. Waldman has received numerous awards and honors for her poetry, including The Dylan Thomas Memorial Award, The Poets Foundation Award, The National Literary Anthology Award, and The Shelley Memorial Award for poetry. Currently Waldman is the director of the M.F.A. Writing and Poetics program at the Naropa Institute. She divides her time between Boulder, Colorado and Greenwich Village, New York City.

Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of 9 collections of poetry including Water Song, Multitudes, Sandy Point. Weaver has been a Pew fellow in poetry and taught in National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan as a Fulbright Scholar. At Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, he is the Alumnae Professor of English and director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center. In addition, he is Chairman of the Simmons International Chinese Poetry Conference.