Anselm Berrigan was born in 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the lower east side of Manhattan, where he lives currently after stops in Buffalo, San Francisco, and Brooklyn.
His books of poetry include Zero Star Hotel, Primitive State, Something for Everybody, Come In Alone, and most recently Pregrets, published by Black Square Editions in 2021. He's the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, editor of What is Poetry? (Just kidding, I know you know): Interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009), & co-editor with Alice Notley, Edmund Berrigan, and Nick Sturm of Get The Money: Selected Prose of Ted Berrigan, just out from City Lights Books.
He is also host and organizer of The Brooklyn Rail’s Wednesday afternoon online poetry series, and from 2003-2007 he served as artistic director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. He teaches part time at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College. In 2017 he was awarded a Grant for Artists from The Foundation of Contemporary Arts.
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Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She attended Brown University, where she earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees.
She is the author of Other Archer (PURH, 2015), In the Laurels, Caught (Fence Books, 2013), which won the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series Award, as well as Crowns of Charlotte (Carolina Wren Press, 2013), The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan, 2003), and Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press, 1999), which won the 1996 New American Poetry Competition, selected by Charles Bernstein.
She edited a Black Mountain College tribute volume, Confluence, as part of Far from the Centers of Ambition (Lorimer Press, 2013) and has produced poetry happenings such as Plays on Words, the Polyphonic Poetry Festival and events at Torn Page. With her partner, Tony Torn, she created the a capella song cycle using refigured folk, ballad and camp song, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
In 1989, Brown founded Tender Buttons Press, which is dedicated to publishing experimental poetry by women and other gender expansive beings. She currently lives in New York City, where she teaches at St. John’s University, and was recently the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation is pleased to present a reading by the poet Anselm Berrigan. He will be introduced by the poet Lee Ann Brown. Please join us tonight - Thursday, September 29. The reading will begin at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm. We will have a limited number of ‘Pregrets’, Anselm’s latest poetry book available for sale.
This event is FREE and open to the public, but a suggested donation of $10 is strongly encouraged. First come, first served. Seating capacity is limited to 50. No RSVP.
Thursday, September 29, 2022
7:00 pm
Link to stream reading here.