Jim Cohn's remarkable Napalm Health Spa we've featured on The Allen Ginsberg Project before (see, for example, here and here). Time to feature it once again, as the current issue has just appeared - a stunning, comprehensive (70th birthday) tribute to Anne Waldman
Anne's birthday was this past April (April 2nd) - See The Allen Ginsberg Project's salute to her here(and a shout-out here, here, here and here for earlier birthday celebrations)
Here's footage (also included in the Napalm Health Spa tribute) of Alystyre Julian and "the Fast Speaking Woman Collective" saluting her on her birthday
The 70th birthday festschrift (edited by Jim Cohn, Eleni Sikleanos and Lisa Berman) features plenty more video (choice performances by Anne), as well as interviews (with Jim Cohn, Randy Roark and Marcella Durand);pages from her collaborative work,(Cry Stall Gazewith Pat Steir), Zhang Ziqing(&Ron Padgett!)on Anne in China, and poems/memoirs/praise from a host of family and friends, including,Andy Clausen, Eliot Katz,Steven Taylor, Reed Bye,David Cope,Eileen Myles,Lewis Warsh,Bill Berkson, Joanne Kyger, Leslea Newman,Chris Tysh, Maureen Owen, Stacy Szymaszek, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nina Zivancevic, & many others
[Anne Waldman at People's Climate March, NYC, September 2014. Photograph by No Land (Lauren)]
