Anselm Berrigan

{{BLP sources|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Anselm Berrigan | image = Anselm Berrigan.jpg | caption = Berrigan in 2005 | birth_name = Anselm Berrigan | birth_date = 1972 | birth_place = [[Chicago, Illinois]], US | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Poet, Teacher | spouse = Karen Weiser }}

'''Anselm Berrigan''' (born 1972) is an American poet and teacher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/aberrigan.htm |title=Anselm Berrigan |accessdate=2009-05-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221084455/http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/aberrigan.htm |archivedate=2009-02-21 }}</ref>

==Life and work== Anselm Berrigan grew up in New York City, where he currently resides with his wife, poet Karen Weiser.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/09/bruce-covey-p-3.html|work=thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com|title=September 28, 2008|accessdate=4 July 2017}}</ref> From 2003 to 2007, he served as artistic director at the [[St. Mark's Poetry Project]]. He is the brother of poet and musician Edmund Berrigan, half-brother of Kate Berrigan and medical researcher and US National Cancer Institute David Berrigan , son of poets [[Alice Notley]] and the late [[Ted Berrigan]], and stepson of the late English poet and prose writer [[Douglas Oliver]].

Berrigan lived in [[Buffalo, New York]] at the "Ranch" and was known as "Anton" in [[San Francisco, California]]. He is a co-chair of the writing program at the [[Bard College]] summer [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] program and an adjunct teacher at [[Brooklyn College]]. He has also taught writing at [[Wesleyan University]], [[Rutgers University]], [[Pratt Institute]] and the [[Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics]] at [[Naropa University|Naropa]]. His newest works are a book-length poem called ''Notes From Irrelevance'' (2011), ''Sure Shot'' (2013), and ''Loading'' (2013), which was done in collaboration with artist Jonathan Allen.

Berrigan received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/anselm-berrigan|title=Anselm Berrigan :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2018-04-19}}</ref>

==Bibliography== * ''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. * ''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'' published by City Lights in 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-87286-502-0}}. * ''Notes From Irrelevance'' ([[Wave Books]], 2011) * ''Sure Shot'' by Overpass Books in 2013. * ''LOADING'' with Jonathan E. Allen by [[Brooklyn Arts Press]] in 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-936767-28-1}}. * ''Primitive State'' published by Edge Books in 2015 (with a cover by painter Marley Freeman). * ''Get the Money!: Collected Prose (1961-1983)'', a collection of prose published by City Lights Books. 09/13/2022. {{ISBN|9780872868953}}. * ''Something for Everybody'', published in 2018 by Wave Books Seattle and New York

==Notes== * {{cite book|editor=Robert Creeley|editor-link=Robert Creeley|title=The Best American Poetry 2002|publisher=Scribner Poetry|year=2002|isbn=0-7432-0386-0|display-editors=etal|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanpoet00robe}} * {{cite book|editor=Lyn Hejinian|editor-link=Lyn Hejinian|title=The Best American Poetry 2004|publisher=Scribner Poetry|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-5737-5|display-editors=etal|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanpoet2004unse_j9k2}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Berrigan-Anselm.php Anselm Berrigan's PennSound page] * [http://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2013/04/23/flyer-profile-anselm-berrigan/ Interview with Anselm Berrigan in the Fayetteville Flyer] * [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anselm-berrigan#poet Poetry Foundation's author page for Anselm Berrigan]

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