Anne Waldman (b. 1945) is an American poet. “From 1966 to 1968, she served as assistant director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s; and, from 1968 to 1978, she served as the Project’s Director” (from Wikipedia, to be updated later …).
Waldman is one of the most important figures in Carroll’s literary career. Author of more than 60+ books of poetry herself, along with numerous collaborations, she ran the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s — where Carroll first began reading his diaries and poetry to audiences — and she edited The World, the literary magazine in which Carroll first began publishing his poems and diaries in the late 1960s. She also included his work in her two World anthologies (and others). As a result, Waldman sort of gave Carroll his start as a writer.
Carroll worked as an assistant at the Poetry Project in the late sixties, early seventies (See “Tiny Tortures” in Forced Entries [pp. 58-59]).
Waldman appears in Poetry in Motion and Gang of Souls, and on The Dial-a-Poem Poets, Disconnected, and Better an Old Demon Than a New God, along with Carroll and others.
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