Talk: Anselm Berrigan as part of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry

Join us as Anselm Berrigan delivers a talk as part of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, which supports contemporary poets as they explore in-depth their own thinking on poetry and poetics, and give a series of lectures resulting from these investigations. Lectures are delivered publicly in partnership with institutions and organizations nationwide.

Anselm Berrigan’s latest book of poetry, Don’t Forget to Love Me, was published in September 2024 by Wave Books. Other books include Pregrets, (Black Square Editions, 2021), , (Wave Books, 2018), (Wave Books, May 2016), (Edge, 2015), (Wave Books, 2011), (City Lights Books, 2009), (Edge, 2006), Zero Star Hotel (Edge, 2002), and (Edge, 1999). He is also the editor of and co-author of two collaborative books: , with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and Skasers, with poet John Coletti (Flowers & Cream, 2012). He was the poetry editor for the Brooklyn Rail from 2008 through 2023. With Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan he co-edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011). More recently, he co-edited Get The Money! Collected Prose of Ted Berrigan (City Lights, 2022) with Notley, Edmund Berrigan, and Nick Sturm. From 2003–2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, where he also hosted the Wednesday Night Reading Series for four years. He teaches writing classes at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College, and was a longtime Co-Chair in Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts interdisciplinary MFA program.

The on Poetry, which supports contemporary poets as they explore in-depth their own thinking on poetry and poetics, and give a series of lectures resulting from these investigations. Lectures are delivered publicly in partnership with institutions and organizations nationwide.

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