*Of interest to those interested in the New York School, Black Mountain School, Language Poetry, New Narrative and the Beats
*Of interest to those interested in issues of gender and racially-based injustice, the global climate crisis and our possible extinction, and strategies for resistance against capitalism.
*A collection of lectures recorded by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University, which carries on an experimental lineage of the New York School, Black Mountain School, Language Poetry, New Narrative and the Beats
*Editor, Anne Waldman is renowned poet and scholar, who founded and served as director of the Poetry Project at St Marks Church for 10 years and is now the artistic director of the Jack Kerouac School of Summer Writing at Naropa University
*Editor, Anne Waldman has been awarded the American Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award (2015), a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry (2013), and PEN Center Literary Award in Poetry (2012), among other prizes
*Editor, Anne Waldman has BA from Bennington College
*Editor, Emma Gomis has been awarded the Anne Waldman Fellowship at Naropa University (2016-18), Deborah Jordy Scholarship (2017), and the The Poetry Project's Brannan Prize for Poetry (2020)
*Editor, Emma Gomic is an editor at Manifold Press and researcher at the University of Cambridge
*Editor, Emma Gomic is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge
*Editor, Emma Gomic has an MFA from Naropa University