Ep. 130
Ken Waldman, “Alaska’s fiddling Poet” – Parts I and 2 His twenty books consist of sixteen full-length poetry collections, a memoir about his life as a touring artist, a volume of acrostic poems for kids, and a hybrid book that’s part creative writing manual, part memoir, part full-length collection of poems (about writers and writing). And there’s his twentieth, the novel.
A former college professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, he’s been a visiting writer at over 100 colleges and universities, a visiting artist at over 250 schools in 35 states, and has led workshops from Alaska to Maine.
As a performer, he’s played from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to the Woodford Folk Festival (Queensland, Australia), occasionally as a soloist, more often as leader of one of his ever-changing troupes of nationally recognized musicians.