Join us for a warm evening out in the garden to celebrate Bard, Kinetic with readings and conversation featuring Anne Waldman, Zoe Brezsny, Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola, and music by Safira Berrada-Riggs.

Anne Waldman—poet, curator, professor, performer, and cultural activist—co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University. She is the author of over 60 volumes of poetry, poetics and anthologies including The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press) which won the Pen Center Literary Prize. Penguin has published her books over many years, including Trickster Feminism, among five others. Her album SCIAMACHYwas released in 2020 by Fast Speaking Music and the Levy-Gorvy Gallery and has been described by Patti Smith as “exquisitely potent, a psychic shield for our times.” Waldman was the keynote speaker for the Bob Dylan and the Beats Conference in Tulsa in the Spring of 2022, and she wrote the libretto for the critically acclaimed opera/movie Black Lodge with music by composer David T. Little that premiered at Opera Philadelphia in October of 2022. Publishers Weekly has called Anne Waldman a “counter-cultural giant.” Waldman is most recently the author of Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press, 2023) and co-editor with Emma Gomis of New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive (Nightboat, 2022).

Zoe Brezsny is a poet from the Bay Area based in New York. You can listen to the archives of her WFMU 91.1FM radio program at wfmu.org/playlists/ZO, featuring music and spoken word. Brezsny co-runs Gern en Regalia with Mario Miron. She is the author of Earthworks (Land and Sea Press) and Ecstasy (Topos Press), an audio cassette of spoken word with poet Ben Fama. She is working on a book called The Source Unlimited.

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola is an artist, poet, and editor whose work explores the materiality of language, memory, sound ecology, perceptions and boundaries of place, elements of chance and archive. She exhibits and performs in multiple media, leads workshops and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial project from Mexico City, where she is currently based. The Telaraña Circuit(Tender Buttons Press) is her first full-length book.

Books will be available for purchase.