The Talk of Our Town with Anne Waldman

Date and Time

• Monday, Jun 30, 2025  7pm - 8:30pm

Location

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Details

Doors: 6:30 p.m.

Talk: 7 p.m.

All Ages Welcome

No Refunds or Exchanges

Nick Forster, the founder and CEO of eTown, a member of the award-winning band Hot Rize and a true Boulder icon, brings his signature warmth and insight to The Talk of Our Town. This series invites notable guests to dive deep into the people, culture and stories that have made Boulder the city it is today.

This month, The Talk of Our Town features Anne Waldman: poet, professor, performer, librettist, founder of poetry communities and cultural activist.

Anne 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 work for many years, including Trickster Feminism, Manatee/Humanity, Marriage: A Sentence and Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, among others. Her album SCIAMACHY was released in 2020 by Fast Speaking Music and has been described by Patti Smith as “exquisitely potent, a psychic shield for our times.”

Anne co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with some of the most celebrated poets in America, including voices from the Beat Generation. She was the keynote speaker for the Bob Dylan and the Beats conference in Tulsa in spring 2022 and wrote the libretto for the Grammy-nominated (2024) opera-film Black Lodge, composed by David T. Little and premiered at Opera Philadelphia.

Publishers Weekly calls Anne a “counter-cultural giant.”

Her most recent works include Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press), New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive(Nightboat), co-edited with Emma Gomis, and Rues du Mondes (Apic Press, Algeria, 2024), translated into French by Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte. She also authored Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds (Trident Books, 2024), and in 2025 released Staircase, Activist Scissors and the forthcoming MESOPOTOPIA from Penguin. Her recent album Astral Omens features Devin Brahja Waldman and Georgia Wartel Collins.

At eTown's Talk of Our Town events, you’ll connect with both new and longtime Boulderites, so plan to come early and stay late to mix and mingle in the eTown café. The café offers a variety of beers, wines, cocktails and tasty sweet and savory bites.
Tickets are only $15

Whether you just moved to Boulder or have seen all the changes that have come our way, The Talk of Our Town is a great way to connect with fellow Boulderites and dive into the city’s unique culture and history.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the conversation beginning at 7 p.m.

With every eTown ticket purchase, you're supporting the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. eTown donates $1 per ticket to Conscious Alliance, aiding hunger relief, youth programs and sustainable solutions for the Oglala Lakota Nation.