Anselm Berrigan

she loved the holes in his brain, the worms that made them, the dumping of the bear in the park, the swim in the sewage, the abdication of sanity, the rejection of science, the bend of his knee to the living orange

Asheville

Asheville https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/asheville

52 years ago
The New York Dolls performing "Looking For a Kiss" at The Old Grey Whistle Test, November 1973

#punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #newyorkdolls #history #punkrockhistory

the short version is that book awards are bullshit and the only thing they do is make big presses make money and certain authors get a moment

sorry, by saying that I just mean those major prizes tend, intentionally, to insulate themselves from small press work, and the committee formations are part of that, & the prize winners drive sales, so it works as a loop, & there's an aesthetic protection racket, which is so small as to be evil

there's always a committee for the big awards

is there anyone in the cabinet who doesn't iron their face when they wake up?

I will never understand Linked In

mom would have been 80 today, so Eddie and I are going to go see the new predator movie

No apologies necessary!!

YouTube video by The Poetry Project Anselm Berrigan + Cedar Sigo

here's the video recording of me and Cedar reading last week at the poetry project in nyc, with intros by Mirene Arsanios

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r7Z...

why leave an airport?

coming back from cincinnati later tonight and if a million motherfuckers aren't out of nyc by then there's gonna be heck to pay

Cover for Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press by Rebecca Kosick. It shows letterpress-style type printed on a background of assembled postcards published by the Alternative Press, including their logo/pressmark of the bison.

I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.

one million people leaving nyc because mamdani gets elected would be terrific for the city

Had I known my ceramic hip setting off the metal detector at LaGuardia meant I’d have to take off my arm sling and wait a good while for a pat down I’d have left my hip in Ridgewood

"any goddamn thing I like."

narrow sidewalks designed for small people walking in single file 175 years ago

nah

Saying max muncy and babe ruth are tied with 15 hrs in the post season- without remembering to say ruth hit all of his in World Series games is par for these announcers

Yamamoto no-hits the jays for 12 innings, and then Donnie Baseball gets activated via an obscure Canadian labor law and goes deep in the 13th to break a scoreless tie

I suppose unironically injured isn’t much of a costume

I guess I'm just looking for moments of selective literality

can you start a non-profit and have a board that is just comprised of boards (piece of wood)?

Guardian

Anselm Berrigan + Cedar Sigo Every poem gives shape to an emergence, a reentry into the world from a place of altered consciousness, which is never fixed, and isn’t new either, but made different each time through a knowledge tha...

reading with Cedar Sigo this Wednesday night: www.poetryproject.org/events/ansel...

Royal Trux makes me cry

i see no reason why i shouldn't listen to here come the warm jets over and over again for the rest of time, or at least this train ride