Posts tagged "Anselm Berrigan"

38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading

[ Sunday, January 1, 2012; 3:00 pm; ] There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better [...]

Anselm Berrigan — “Four Poems” — 9/28/11

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Introductions for Anselm Berrigan & David Trinidad

For those of you who celebrated Rosh Hashanah last night or had to watch baseball, here are my introductions for Anselm and David.
Anselm Berrigan’s newest book, Notes from Irrelevance, was just published by Wave Books. Free Cell and To Hell With Sleep were published in 2009. And Have a Good One was published in 2008. I’m [...]

Anselm Berrigan & David Trinidad — 9/28/11

Anselm Berrigan & David Trinidad

[ Wednesday, September 28, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Anselm Berrigan’s newest book Notes from Irrelevance, just out from Wave Books, is made of one long poem that puts irrelevance to use by making it a tag for deep depth, getting lost, and willful desire for image dissolution. It’s funny. Last decade he ran The Poetry Project for four years, and right now has [...]

Artistic Director’s Reading (excerpts) – 3/23/11

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Anselm Berrigan – from “Primitive State” – Artistic Directors of The Poetry Project Reading 3/23/11

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Artistic Directors of The Poetry Project Talk 3-23-11

On a cold March night of freezing rain, thunder and lightening, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles and Ed Friedman gathered at a table in the Parish Hall to talk about their time as Artistic Directors at The Poetry Project. The talk was moderated by poet and Monday Night Readings Coordinator, Macgregor Card. [...]

A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos

[ Wednesday, May 11, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Edited by poet David Trinidad and published by Nightboat Books, this volume establishes Tim Dlugos—the witty and innovative poet at the heart of the New York literary scene in the late 1970s and 1980s and seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic—as one of the most distinctive and energetic poets of our time.  A host of [...]

Artistic Directors of The Poetry Project

[ Wednesday, March 23, 2011; 6:30 pm; ] Wednesday
Paul Blackburn gave a reading on September 22, 1966, and so began the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-In-the-Bowery. The Project has been a major force in contemporary poetry for 45 years, and run by poets for all of those years. Please join us as we celebrate this aspect of our history by hearing from [...]