Something for Everybody

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• Anselm Berrigans audience is deservedly broad and loyal: he is among the most respected poets writing in America today, both for his work and for the many hats he wears as editor, educator, and curator.
• These poems span a period of roughly eight years and help contextualize Berrigans numerous other books written during that period.
• The diversity of the work, both in style and in the topics and objects the poems encounter, is extremely impressivethis is a poet working at incredible visual and sonic capacity.
• Berrigans poems are fast-paced, irreverent, and often funny, capturing the texture of New York life.

• Berrigan comes from a family intimately tied to twentieth-century poetics: his mother is acclaimed poet Alice Notley, his father, the acclaimed late poet Ted Berrigan.
• Berrigan served as Artistic Director of the legendary Poetry Project at St. Marks Church (2004-2007).
• He is poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail and Co-Chair of Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. He also teaches at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College.

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"Whether he's riffing like a jazz musician or clipping like a radio scanning through channels, Berrigan sets a surreal mood appropriate for increasingly apocalyptic and hallucinatory times . . . Berrigan is always up for an experiment, and his clever and deeply human work soothes as a balm against the irritations of daily life."
Publishers Weekly

As Berrigan puts the sense of magic spell back into the word charm, I sense somewhat of a post-punk ethos, as well as the Shakespearean Foole at his most linguistically complex.
Chris Stroffolino,Boog City

Author Bio

Anselm Berriganis the editor of What is Poetry (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (19832009), as well asthe author of several books of poetry: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), andIntegrity and Dramatic Life(Edge, 1999). He is also co-author of two collaborative books:Loading, with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), andSkasers, with poet John Coletti (Flowers & Cream, 2012).His chapbooks includePregrets(Vagabond Press, 2014), andSure Shot(Overpass, 2013). He is the current poetry editor forThe Brooklyn Rail, and co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan ofThe Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan(U. California, 2005) and theSelected Poems of Ted Berrigan(U. California, 2011). A member of the subpress publishing collective, he has publishedSelected Poems of Steve Carey(2009) andYour Ancient See Throughby Hoa Nguyen (2002). 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 is Co-Chair, Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts interdisciplinary MFA program, and also teaches part-time at Brooklyn College. He was awarded a 2015 Process Space Residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and in 2014 he was awarded a Robert Rauschenberg Residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 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. He lives in New York City, where he also grew up.