Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action
Editor Biographies

Anne Waldman is an internationally renowned poet, performer, cultural activist, and Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the author of over forty books, including Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, & Manifestos and the recent collection In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems 1985-2003.

Lisa Birman is a poet and writer from Melbourne, Australia. Her books include Some Things - Poems and Translations, deportation poems, and the forthcoming possibly. Birman is the co-founder of Movie Star Press and co-director of Naropa University's Summer Writing Program.

Books by Anne Waldman:

• Helping the Dreamer
• In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems 1985-2003
• Iovis, Book I: All is Full of Jove
• Iovis, Book II
• Nice to See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan (editor)
• Vow to Poetry