Don't Forget to Love Me
Editor, teacher, pillar in the literary community: Berrigan is sort of a superstar poet: he was the director of the Poetry Project from 2003–2007, is currently the poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail, and is the co-chair for the interdisciplinary MFA program at Bard College and also teaches at Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute. He is also the son of Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan and brother to fellow poet Edmund Berrigan. This is to say, many, many people not only love his work, but also respect him as a pillar within the literary community, especially in New York.
Formally audacious but accessible: Berrigan is always experimenting with form, but this book is probably his most audacious. While formally playful, it is still accessible, and it will be highly anticipated by bookstores who cherish his work, but its wit and plainspoken language make it an excellent read for someone new to poetry.
Anselm Berrigan is the author of many books of poetry: Pregrets, (Black
Square Editions, 2021), Something for Everybody, (Wave Books, 2018), Come In Alone (Wave Books, May 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 the editor of What is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983–2009) and 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 was the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail . 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. A member of the subpress publishing collective, he has published books by Hoa Nguyen, Steve Carey, Adam DeGraff, and Brendan Lorber. 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. Berrigan was granted an Individual Artists Award from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts in 2017, and was also awarded a 2015 Process Space Residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a Robert Rauschenberg Residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2014. 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.
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