Anselm Berrigan

Anselm Berrigan (Born in Chicago, Illinois) He is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including Notes on Irrelevance (Wave Books, forthcoming 2011); Free Cell (City Lights, 2009), Some Notes on My Programming (Edge Books, 2006), Zero Star Hotel (Edge Books, 2002) and Integrity & Dramatic Life (Edge Books, 1999). With Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan he co-edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California Press, 2005), and Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California Press, 2011).

Berrigan is currently the Poetry Editor of The Brooklyn Rail, an arts and culture monthly in NYC. As a member of the subpress publishing collective, he has published THE SELECTED POEMS OF STEVE CAREY (2009) and Your Ancient See Through by Hoa Nguyen (2002). Berrigan was the Artistic Director at The Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church in New York from 2003-2007. He currently teaches at the Pratt Institute and Wesleyan University, and is Co-Chair of Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Berrigan has written for Harriet, a blog from the Poetry Foundation, archives can be found here:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/author/aberrigan/. Several recorded readings and one radio interview can be heard at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Berrigan-Anselm.php