This audio was recorded at Dia:Chelsea on September 22, 2011 as part of
Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry series.
Anselm Berrigan and John Godfrey read that evening.
Anselm Berrigan's books of poetry include
Free Cell (2009),
Some Notes on My Programming (2006),
Zero Star Hotel (2002), the chapbook
Primitive State (2010) and the book-length poem
Notes from Irrelevance, to be published in 2011. He is the poetry editor for
The Brooklyn Rail, co-editor of the recently published Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (2011), and a member of the Subpress collective. From 2003 to 2007, he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
To hear Vincent Katz's introduction to Anselm Berrigan, please
click here.