The Poetry Project’s Director, Stacy Szymaszek, and Managing Director, Nicole Wallace, interviewed Anne Waldman in the apartment she grew up in, located in the West Village, on January 7, 2012. Anne Waldman, b. April 2, 1945, was The Poetry Project’s second Director (1968-1978) and before that (1966-1968) was the Assistant to Joel Sloman and the Project’s first Artistic Director, Joel Oppenheimer.