Ted Berrigan

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Ted Berrigan (15 November 1934 - 4 July 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 in 1954 to serve in the Korean War. After three years in the Army, he finished his college studies at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where he received a B.A. in English in 1959. He received his M.A. from Tulsa in 1962. Berrigan was married to Sandy Berrigan, also a poet, and they had two children, David Berrigan and Kate Berrigan. He and his second wife the poet Alice Notley were active in the poetry scene in Chicago for several years, then moved to New York City, where he edited various magazines and books. A prominent figure in the second generation of the New York School of Poets, Berrigan was peer to Jim Carroll, Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. 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. In 2005, Ted Berrigan's published and unpublished poetry was published together in a single volume edited by the poet Alice Notley, Berrigan's second wife, and their two sons, Anselm Berrigan – a poet – and Edmund Berrigan, a poet and songwriter. The poet Frank O'Hara called Berrigan's most significant

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The Sonnets - New Langton Arts - San Francisco / June 1981

The Dial-A-Poem Poets

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Interview/"In The American Tree" radio show hosted by Lyn Hejinian & Kit Robinson

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Sugar, Alcohol, & Meat

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Dial-A-Poem Poets: Biting off the Tongue of a Corpse, 1975

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Naropa Institute / Jul-25-1982

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The World Record / St. Mark's Poetry Project 1969-1980

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The World Record - Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project 1969-80

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Giorno Poetry Systems: Totally Corrupt, 1976

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Complete Reading in Intersection for the Arts, August 1971

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12 Great Americans

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Biting off the Tongue of a Corpse

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