Anselm Berrigan

Anselm Berrigan is a poet and author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is Free Cell (City Lights, 2009). Other books include Zero Star Hotel, Some Notes on My Programming, and Integrity & Dramatic Life, all published by Edge Books. He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail (brooklynrail.org), an arts and culture monthly in print and on-line, and co-editor of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (UCal, 2005) as well as the forthcoming Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (UCal, 2011). An archive of blog entries kept for The Poetry Foundation in 2009-2010 can be found here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/author/aberrigan/. He lives in New York City, where he grew up, and has worked in various capacities for The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church over the past thirteen years, most recently as a workshop leader.