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27-559: Selah Saterstrom is an American author, originally from the south. She is the author of five books: Rancher (Burrow Press, 2021), Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics (Essay Press, 2017), Slab ( Coffee House Press , 2015), The Meat and Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, 2007), and The Pink Institution (Coffee House Press, 2004). Her work has twice been nominated for the Believer Book Award . She

54-1052: A Fellow at the Emily Harvey Foundation (Winter 2008) and the Bellagio Center in Italy (Spring 2006). She has also held residencies at the Christian Woman's University of Tokyo (Fall 2004); the Schule für Dichtung in Vienna (where she has also served as Curriculum Director in 1989); the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey (1984). She has served as an advisor to

81-466: A bigger form, one that doesn't just rest quietly on the page. The performative quality is there because there needs to be an extra emphasis. Rather than reading quietly, I feel the physical need to do something bigger. I don't walk around as an angry person all the time, but there are different states of minds. Like in Hinduism, the gods and goddesses embody different states of being and experience. That's

108-636: A fervent activist for social change. In the 1970s, she was involved with the Rocky Flats Truth Force , an organization opposed to the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility ten miles to the south of Boulder, Colorado. With Daniel Ellsberg and Allen Ginsberg, she was arrested for protesting outside of the site. She has been a vocal proponent for feminist, environmental, and human rights causes; an active participant in Poets Against

135-666: A magazine of the same name and a number of smaller books. It was while she was attending this conference that she first committed to poetry after hearing the Outrider poets. In 1974, with Trungpa, Ginsberg, and others, Waldman founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado (now Naropa University), where she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and

162-525: Is a full professor and the director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver . This American novelist article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Coffee House Press Coffee House began with Toothpaste , a mimeograph magazine founded by Allan Kornblum in Iowa in 1970. After taking a University of Iowa typography course with the acclaimed Harry Duncan , Kornblum

189-480: Is also the editor of several volumes relating to modern, postmodern, and contemporary poetry. Over the course of her career, Waldman has also been a tireless collaborator, producing works with artists Elizabeth Murray , Richard Tuttle , Meredith Monk , George Schneeman, Donna Dennis, Pat Steir ; musicians Don Cherry , Laurie Anderson , and Steve Lacy ; dancer Douglas Dunn ; filmmaker and husband Ed Bowes; and her son, musician/composer Ambrose Bye. Waldman has been

216-629: Is particularly interested in the performance of her poetry: she considers performance a "ritualized event in time," and she expresses the energy of her poetry through exuberant breathing, chanting, singing, and movement. Waldman credits her poem "Fast Speaking Woman" as the seminal work that galvanized her idea of poetry as performance. Ginsberg, Kenneth Koch , and Lawrence Ferlinghetti all encouraged her to continue to perform her poetry. Waldman has published more than forty books of poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized, featuring work in Breaking

243-685: The Beat Generation poets. Born in Millville, New Jersey , Waldman was raised on MacDougal Street in New York City 's Greenwich Village , and received her B.A. degree from Bennington College in 1966. Waldman has been quoted, describing growing up in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s: "we benefited from the trials of young women who had struggled to be creative and assertive before us, and we were certainly aware of

270-709: The Poetry Project at St. Mark's ; and, from 1968 to 1978, she served as the Project's Director. In the early 1960s, Waldman became a student of Buddhism . In the 1970s, along with Allen Ginsberg, she began to study with the Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche . While attending the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, Waldman, with poet Lewis Warsh , was inspired to found Angel Hair , a small press that produced

297-726: The University of Michigan's Special Collections Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A 55-minute film titled Anne Waldman: Makeup on Empty Space , a film by poet Jim Cohn , documents the opening of the Anne Waldman Collection at the University of Michigan . In an interview with The Wire from the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2017, Waldman was asked about the way her poetry crosses forms and incorporates songs and chants, and how she develops this type of poem. She said, "I've always been interested in

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324-588: The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner , one of the year's most critically acclaimed novels, drawing national and international attention to the press. Other award-winning Coffee House Press authors include Ron Padgett , Anne Waldman , Frank Chin , Kao Kalia Yang , David Hilton, Laird Hunt , and Brian Evenson . Coffee House Press won the 2017 AWP Small Press Publisher Award given by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs that "acknowledges

351-549: The Cool (University of Mississippi Press, 2004), All Poets Welcome (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003), Women of the Beat Generation (Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1996), Postmodern American Poetry (New York: W.W. Norton, 1994) and Up Late (Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1988) among other publications. Her poems have been translated into French, Italian, German, Turkish, Spanish, and Chinese. Waldman

378-700: The Director of Naropa's celebrated Summer Writing Program. In 1976, Waldman and Ginsberg were featured in Bob Dylan 's film, Renaldo and Clara . They worked on the film while traveling through New England and Canada with the Rolling Thunder Revue , a concert tour that made impromptu stops, entertaining enthusiastic crowds with poetry and music. Waldman, Ginsberg, and Dylan were joined on these caravans by musicians such as Joan Baez , Joni Mitchell , Eric Anderson, and Joe Cocker . Waldman reveled in

405-743: The Emily Books imprint. Anitra Budd succeeded Fischbach as publisher and executive director in August 2021. Coffee House has published more than 300 books, with over 250 still in print, and releases 15–20 new titles each year. It has earned a reputation for long-term commitment to the authors it chooses to publish. The press is currently located in the historic Grain Belt Bottling House in Northeast Minneapolis . Especially notable books from Coffee House Press include

432-627: The International Poetry Championship Bout in Taos, New Mexico twice. In 2011, Waldman was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets . Her archive of historical, literary, art, tape, and extensive correspondence materials (including many prominent literary correspondents, such as: William S. Burroughs , Robert Creeley , Diane Di Prima , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Allen Ginsberg, and Ken Kesey ) resides at

459-1132: The Prazska Skola Projekt in Prague, the Study Abroad on the Bowery (since 2004), and has been a faculty member in the New England College Low Residency MFA Program (since 2003). She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Contemporary Artists Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation. With writer and scholar Ammiel Alcalay , she founded the Poetry Is News Coalition in 2002. Waldman also won

486-658: The War; and she has helped organize protests in New York and Washington, D. C. Waldman says that her life's work is to "keep the world safe for poetry". Waldman married Reed Bye in 1980, and their son, Edwin Ambrose Bye, was born on October 21, 1980. The birth of her son proved to be an "inspiring turning point" for Waldman, and she became interested in and committed to the survival of the planet. Her child, she said, became her teacher. Waldman and Ambrose Bye perform frequently, and

513-485: The best in contemporary literature, first and foremost—then, only secondly, as representatives of minority communities. That might be one of our most important contributions [to American literature]." In July 2011, after a two-year leadership transition process, Kornblum stepped down to become the press’s senior editor. Chris Fischbach, who began at the press as an intern in 1994, succeeded him as publisher. In 2015, Coffee House partnered with Emily Gould and Ruth Curry on

540-662: The best-selling Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage and National Book Award finalists Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith (poetry, 2008), and I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (fiction, 2010). Other national award-winning titles include American Book Award winners Somewhere Else by Matthew Shenoda (2006), The Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi (2008), American Library Association Notable Book Miniatures by Norah Labiner (2003) and ALA Best First Novels List selection Our Sometime Sister , also by Labiner (2000). In 2011 Coffee House published Leaving

567-443: The child up for adoption, who never felt like they owned and appreciated their bodies. I knew women who lived secret or double lives because love and sexual attraction to another woman was an anathema. I knew women in daily therapy because their fathers had abused them, or women who got sent away to mental hospitals or special schools because they'd taken a black lover. Some ran away from home. Some committed suicide." Waldman has been

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594-642: The exciting artistic and liberal heritage of our New York environs and yet many of us fell into the same retrograde traps. Being dominated by relationships with men— letting our own talents lag, following their lead — which could really result in drug dependencies, painful abortions, alienation from family and friends… I knew interesting and creative women who became junkies for their boyfriends, who stole for their boyfriends, who concealed their poetry and artistic aspirations, who slept around to be popular, who had serious eating disorders, who concealed their unwanted pregnancies raising money for abortions on their own, who put

621-433: The experience, and she often thought of recreating the poetry caravan. Although her work is sometimes connected to the Beat Generation , Waldman has never been, strictly speaking, a "Beat" poet. Her work, like the work of her contemporaries in the 1970s New York milieu of which she was a vital part—writers such as Alice Notley and Bernadette Mayer , to name only two—is more diverse in its influences and ambitions. Waldman

648-578: The hard work, creativity, and innovation" of small presses and "their contributions to the literary landscape" of the US. Anne Waldman Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet . Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outriders Poetry Project experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist. She has also been connected to

675-660: The press's authors and readers, Kornblum renamed it Coffee House Press. The press soon began to receive national acclaim. In the early 1990s, books like Donald Duk by Frank Chin and Through the Arc of the Rainforest by Karen Tei Yamashita (a 1991 American Book Award winner) drew national attention and also helped to cement the press's continuing reputation for publishing exceptional works by writers of color. As Kornblum once described it, "Coffee House Press has actively published writers of color as writers, as representatives of

702-706: The two have created Fast Speaking Music and have produced multiple albums together. During the 1960s, Waldman became part of the East Coast poetry scene, in part through her engagement with the poets and artists loosely termed the Second Generation of the New York School . During this time, Waldman also made many connections with earlier generations of poets, including figures such as Allen Ginsberg , who once called Waldman his "spiritual wife." From 1966 to 1968, she served as assistant director of

729-503: Was inspired to turn Toothpaste into Toothpaste Press, a small publishing company dedicated to producing poetry pamphlets and letterpress books. After 10 years of publishing letterpress books, Kornblum closed the press in December 1983; the following year, he moved to Minneapolis , reopened the press as a nonprofit organization, and began printing trade books. Concerned that the press's lighthearted name belied his serious commitment to

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