A n n e W a l d m a n : K e e p i n g T h e W o r l d S a f e F o r P o e t r y

N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 5 : S p e c i a l E d i t i o n

ANNE WALDMAN

Wanted to Sound Like He was Recording From the Top of a Mountain

[Anne Waldman writes "Wanted to Sound Like He was Recording From the Top of a Mountain”

for John Lennon to the music of “Tomorrow Never Knows” in 2011. An excellent performance of

the poem, with accompaniment by Ambrose Bye on acoustic piano and Junior Burke on guitar,

was documented by Laura Mullen at a Laughing Goat Cafe, Boulder, CO, 27 June 2011 gathering

of the “So, You’re A Poet” Monday Night reading series, emceed by Thomas R. Peters, Jr.]