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Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
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Millville
New Jersey
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I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.
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We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.
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I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.
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I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.
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I took my vow to poetry this is where I'm going to be. These are my people this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.
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My teachers were often very eccentric.
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My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?
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I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.
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I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.
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The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.
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I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.
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It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.
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