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Ted Berrigan
Edmund Joseph Michael Berrigan Jr. (November 15, 1934 – July 4, 1983) was an American poet.
Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army. Following his three-year service obligation, he enrolled at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where he received a B.A. degree in English in 1959 and fell just short of the requirements for an M.A. in 1962. He founded the literary magazine C in 1964.
Berrigan married Sandra in 1962, also a poet, and they had two children: David Berrigan (a medical researcher and director of the US National Cancer Institute) and Kate Berrigan. He and his second wife, the poet Alice Notley, married in 1972 and were active in the poetry scene in Chicago for several years, then moved to New York City, where he edited various magazines and books.
In 1970, Berrigan was hired as a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he me Alice Notley. His C Press published Notley's first book 165 Meeting House Lane in Bolinas, California.
In 1972, Berrigan was appointed to a teaching position at Northeastern Illinois University, formerly held by Ed Dorn. A group of his students started a small poetry press, The Yellow Press, which published a book by Berrigan, and awarded an annual Ted Berrigan Prize for a first book.
In 1974, Berrigan was selected as a visiting poet at the University of Essex, and relocated with his family to Brightlingsea in Essex. They returned to the United States in 1976, living on the Lower East Side of New York City at 101 St. Mark's Place. Their apartment was a gathering place for young writers and Berrigan's contemporaries. Berrigan was a frequent instructor at Naropa University's summer writing program.
A prominent figure in the second generation of the New York School of poets, Berrigan was a peer of Jim Carroll, Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, and Lewis Warsh. He collaborated with Padgett and Joe Brainard on Bean Spasms, a work significant in its rejection of traditional concepts of ownership. Though Berrigan, Padgett, and Brainard all wrote individual poems for the book, and collaborated on many others, no authors were listed for individual poems. Berrigan also collaborated with Padgett on work published in the literary magazine O to 9, which experimented with language and meaning-making.
In 2005, Berrigan's published and unpublished poetry was compiled and published in a single volume edited by Notley and their two sons, Anselm and Edmund Berrigan.
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Ted Berrigan
Edmund Joseph Michael Berrigan Jr. (November 15, 1934 – July 4, 1983) was an American poet.
Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army. Following his three-year service obligation, he enrolled at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where he received a B.A. degree in English in 1959 and fell just short of the requirements for an M.A. in 1962. He founded the literary magazine C in 1964.
Berrigan married Sandra in 1962, also a poet, and they had two children: David Berrigan (a medical researcher and director of the US National Cancer Institute) and Kate Berrigan. He and his second wife, the poet Alice Notley, married in 1972 and were active in the poetry scene in Chicago for several years, then moved to New York City, where he edited various magazines and books.
In 1970, Berrigan was hired as a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he me Alice Notley. His C Press published Notley's first book 165 Meeting House Lane in Bolinas, California.
In 1972, Berrigan was appointed to a teaching position at Northeastern Illinois University, formerly held by Ed Dorn. A group of his students started a small poetry press, The Yellow Press, which published a book by Berrigan, and awarded an annual Ted Berrigan Prize for a first book.
In 1974, Berrigan was selected as a visiting poet at the University of Essex, and relocated with his family to Brightlingsea in Essex. They returned to the United States in 1976, living on the Lower East Side of New York City at 101 St. Mark's Place. Their apartment was a gathering place for young writers and Berrigan's contemporaries. Berrigan was a frequent instructor at Naropa University's summer writing program.
A prominent figure in the second generation of the New York School of poets, Berrigan was a peer of Jim Carroll, Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, and Lewis Warsh. He collaborated with Padgett and Joe Brainard on Bean Spasms, a work significant in its rejection of traditional concepts of ownership. Though Berrigan, Padgett, and Brainard all wrote individual poems for the book, and collaborated on many others, no authors were listed for individual poems. Berrigan also collaborated with Padgett on work published in the literary magazine O to 9, which experimented with language and meaning-making.
In 2005, Berrigan's published and unpublished poetry was compiled and published in a single volume edited by Notley and their two sons, Anselm and Edmund Berrigan.