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About Anselm Berrigan

Anselm Berrigan is the author of many books of poetry: Pregrets (BlackSquare Editions 2021) Something for Everybody (Wave Books 2018) Come In Alone (Wave Books May 2016) Primitive State (Edge 2015) Notes from Irrelevance (Wave Books 2011) Free Cell (City Lights Books 2009) Some Notes on My Programming (Edge 2006) Zero Star Hotel (Edge 2002) and Integrity and Dramatic Life (Edge 1999). He is also the editor of What is Poetry? (Just Kidding I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (19832009) and co-author of two collaborative books: Loading with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press 2013) and Skasers with poet John Coletti (Flowers & Cream 2012). He was the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail from 2008 through 2023. With Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan he co-edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California 2011). More recently he co-edited Get The Money! Collected Prose of Ted Berrigan (City Lights 2022) with Notley Edmund Berrigan and Nick Sturm. A member of the subpress publishing collective he has published books by Hoa Nguyen Steve Carey Adam DeGraff and Brendan Lorber.  From 2003-2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church where he also hosted the Wednesday Night Reading Series for four years. He teaches writing classes at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College and was a longtime Co-Chair in Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts interdisciplinary MFA program. Berrigan was granted an Individual Artists Award from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts in 2017 and was also awarded a 2015 Process Space Residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a Robert Rauschenberg Residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2014. He was a New York State Foundation for the Arts fellow in Poetry for 2007 and has received three grants from the Fund for Poetry.