Anne Waldman is known primarily for her poetry.

Anne Waldman has written more than thirty books of poetry and has edited numerous anthologies. She was assistant director, and later director, of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1968 to 1978. She cofounded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Waldman has received numerous grants and awards, including the Dylan Thomas Memorial Award (1967), a Poets Foundation Award (1969), a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1979-1980), the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award (1996), an Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency (2002), and a fellowship from the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice (Winter, 2007). In 2001, she received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; the same year, she was a resident at the Vermont Studio School.

In March, 2002, the University of Michigan officially opened an archive of Waldman’s works and mementoes, calling her “one of the most vibrant writers of the post-Beat generation, . . . a performance poet of electric intensity.”