Siren Community
November 24, 2025
In the fall of 2023, Anne Waldman hosted a two-day event called The Genius of Others and invited a wide range of artists, poets, and musicians to present their work. Now, Anne returns to 222 for a membership drive event—and hosts a listening party for Your Devotee in Rags, a record she just made with the musician Andrew Whiteman, the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Broken Social Scene.
Your Devotee in Rags is a sonic poetry collaboration between Anne and Andrew. Taking inspiration from musicians like Lido Pimienta and Tanya Tagaaq, the record is, in their words, “a missive to this age of patriarchal power,” and “its songs and poems are designed to specifically confront that power and hold it to account.”First, we all sit down and listen the record together. Then Anne and Andrew have a conversation about it.
Registration available here.
June 5, 2025
Muttertongue: what is a word in utter space by Lillian Allen (a dub poet, writer, and Juno Award winner), Gary Barwin (poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer, and educator), and Gregory Betts (whose writing explores the boundaries between self, other, and alien – the radical other) is a collaborative collection that crackles in its exploration of land, language, and page space. Combining the intensity of Dub Poetry with the intricacies of experimental poetics, this album is the sonorous soundscape partner of the collection of the same name (Exile Editions, 2025).
Vinyl edition includes exclusive track: "What What What What".
Come join us in the Tranzac’s Main Hall at 7:30p.m. to hear Muttertongue live! With support by TETC and Poet’s Workout Soundsystem. Tickets available via Eventbrite here.