Anselm Berrigan is a poet

Poet

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 and teacher. He grew up in New York City

New York City

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, where he currently resides with his wife, poet Karen Weiser. From 2003 to 2007, he served as artistic director at the St. Mark's Poetry Project

St. Mark's Poetry Project

The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 in the East Village of Manhattan by the poet and translator Paul Blackburn, it has been a crucial venue for new and experimental poetries for over four decades....

. He is the brother of poet and musician Edmund Berrigan, half-brother of Kate Berrigan and scientist David Berrigan, son of poets Alice Notley

Alice Notley

Alice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...

 and the late Ted Berrigan

Ted Berrigan

-Early life:Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army in 1954 to serve in the Korean War. After three years in the Army, he finished his college studies at the University of Tulsa in...

, and stepson of the late English poet and prose writer Douglas Oliver

Douglas Oliver

Douglas Dunlop Oliver was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s. He received a...

. He has also lived in Buffalo, NY at the "Ranch" and was known lovingly as "Anton" in San Francisco, CA. He is a co-chair of the writing program at the Bard College

Bard College

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 summer MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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 program and a professor at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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. He has also taught writing at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

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, Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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, Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

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, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa

Naropa University

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. His newest work, which is a book-length poem called Notes From Irrelevance, will be released on September 1st, 2011, through Wave Books

Wave Books

Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 2005, joining forces with Western Massachusetts-based poetry publisher Verse Press , and has published over fifty books, including works by Joshua Beckman, Dara Wier, Matthew Rohrer, Eileen Myles, Tyehimba...

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Selected bibliography

• On the Premises, a chapbook published in 1995.
• They Beat Me Over the Head With a Sack, a chapbook published in 1998.
• Integrity & Dramatic Life, a full-length collection published by Edge Books in 1999.
• In the Dream Hole, a chapbook published in 2001.
• Zero Star Hotel, a full-length collection published by Edge Books in 2002.
• "Pictures for Private Devotion", a CD (reading poems/no music/ narrow house), released in 2003.
• Some Notes on My Programming, a full-length collection published in 2006.
• Have a Good One, a chapbook published in 2008.
• To Hell With Sleep, a perfect-bound chapbook published in 2009.
• Free Cell, a poetry collection, published by City Lights in 2009. ISBN 978-0872865020.
• Notes From Irrelevance (Wave Books
  Wave Books
  Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 2005, joining forces with Western Massachusetts-based poetry publisher Verse Press , and has published over fifty books, including works by Joshua Beckman, Dara Wier, Matthew Rohrer, Eileen Myles, Tyehimba...
  
  , 2011)

External Links

• http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/73
• http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/104-notes-from-irrelevance