Description
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Poetry Project. A curated sample PDF with select pictures from the book and a digital press release will be sent to major print and digital publications based in New York to alert them to the book and the anniversary of the Project. Review copy mailing to print publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, Poets & Writers, Bookforum, and the Boston Review. Publicity and promotion in conjunction with all anniversary related events at The Project. Co-op available.
About the Author
Anselm Berrigan is the author of seven books of poetry: Come In Alone (Wave Books, 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), and Integrity and Dramatic Life (Edge, 1999). He is also co-author of two collaborative books: Loading, with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and Skasers, with poet John Coletti (Flowers & Cream, 2012). He is the current poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, and co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011). 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 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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781940696393
Author Anselm Berrigan
Format Paperback
Page Count 440
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books
Weight(grams) 666g