The Talk of Our Town

Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Talk: 7 p.m.

All Ages Welcome
No Refunds or Exchanges

Nick Forster, the founder and CEO of eTown, a member of the award-winning band Hot Rize, and a true Boulder icon, brings his signature warmth and insight to The Talk of Our Town. This series invites notable guests to dive deep into the people, culture, and stories that have made Boulder the city it is today.

This month, The Talk of Our Town features Anne Waldman, poet, professor, performer, librettist, founder of poetry communities. and cultural activist.

Anne is the author of over 60 plus volumes of poetry, poetics and anthologies including The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in The Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press) which won the Pen Center Literary Prize. Penguin has published her books over many years, including Trickster Feminism, Manatee/Humanity, Marriage: A Sentence, and Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, among seven other volumes. Her album SCIAMACHY was released in 2020 by Fast Speaking Music and has been described by Patti Smith as “exquisitely potent, a psychic shield for our times.”

Anne co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University with some of the most celebrated poets in America, including poets of the Beat Generation. She was the keynote speaker for the Bob Dylan and the Beats Conference in Tulsa in the Spring of 2022, and she wrote the libretto for the critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated (2024) opera/movie Black Lodge with music by composer David T. Little that premiered at Opera Philadelphia.  

Publishers Weekly has called Anne a “counter-cultural giant.”

She is most recently the author of Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press) and co-editor with Emma Gomis of New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive (Nightboat). And the recent book from Apic Press in Algeria: Rues du Mondes, 2024, translations into French by Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte. And the essay on the Beats and the founding of the Buddhist inspired Naropa University, with notes & poems: Tendrel: AMeeting of Minds, Trident Books, 2024; Recently released:Staircase, Activist Scissors in 2025. And a new volume from Penguin  (MESOPOTOPIA)in 2025.Recent album: “Astral Omens”: with Devin Brahja Waldman  & Georgia Wartel Collins. 

At eTown's Talk of Our Town events, you’ll connect with new and veteran Boulderites, so plan to come early and stay late to mix and mingle in the eTown café. The café offers a variety of beers, wines, cocktails, and tasty sweet and savory bites.

Tickets are only $15.

Whether you just moved to Boulder or have seen all the changes that have come our way, The Talk of Our Town is a great way to connect with fellow Boulderites and dive into the city’s unique culture and history.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the conversation beginning at 7 p.m.

With every eTown ticket purchase, you're supporting the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. eTown donates $1 per ticket to Conscious Alliance, aiding hunger relief, youth programs and sustainable solutions for the Oglala Lakota Nation.