Anselm Berrigan




Pictures for Private Devotion (2003) - album from Narrow House Recordings

1. Pictures for Private Devotion (3:00)
2. My Babysitters (2:54)
3. To a Broken Surface (0:30)
4. The Position of the Planets on the Human Forehead (1:52)
5. Token Enabler (2:50)
6. 7/4/2000 (1:17)
7. Recalled to Life (2:43)
8. 8/1/97 (1:29)
9. Universal Generic Themes and Meanings (1:19)
10. My Poem (0:47)
11. From Colorado Springs to Boise City (2:04)
12. "I send you an envelope full of comets..." (0:30)
13. Not All There (3:15)
14. Security (1:25)
15. Postcard to Brett Evans (3:58)
16. Strangers in the Nest (1:51)
17. No Knock Knows You're Awake (2:07)
18. "Plastic white bag..." (0:59)
19. Looking Through a Slant of Light (1:18)
20. Anti-Preening Poem (0:40)
21. In the Paint (3:39)
22. A Poem for Patriots (1:30)
23. In the Manufacturing Belt (2:05)
24. The Page Torn Out (1:13)
25. from Zero Star Hotel (13:34)


Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, March 13, 2001
complete reading (29:15): MP3


Segue Reading at Double Happiness, January 6, 2001
complete reading (26:02): MP3


Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 20, 2004
1. Introduction (1:50)
2. I Know It's an Instant Movie (1:07)
3. Some Assembly Required (1:01)
4. After Joe [Inaudible] (0:27)
5. 3-23-00 (0:55)
6. Some Notes on my Programming (5:50)
7. Ode to the Paranoid (0:53)
8. A Poem for Patriots (1:22)
9. Everything Lasts a Certain Amount of Time; That's Very Odd (0:39)
10. 9/21/03 (1:00)
11. 10-19-03 (1:28)
12. Do Service Changes Puzzle you? (0:43)
13. Quiet Rectangles Sock the Room into Boredom (0:31)
14. The Autobiography of Donald Rumsfeld (2:41)
15. In the Circle (0:15)
16. Huddle Presence (0:33)
17. In the Paint (3:14)
18. Stone Free (5:50)

complete reading (35:48): MP3



Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 8, 2005
1. Introduction (1:22)
2. Free Cell (9:04)
3. Jim Brody (1:48)
4. For Lorenzo and My Father (1:08)
5. Comodesty in Advance (2:04)
6. 9 20 (0:19)
7. Have a Good One (7:46)
8. Out the Second Floor Window (by Ted Berrigan) (0:19)
9. Visits from a Small Enigma (by Ted Berrigan) (0:51)
10. Dreamland (by Ted Berrigan) (0:51)
11. Back in the Old Place (by Ted Berrigan) (2:39)
12. Old Moon (by Ted Berrigan) (1:00)
13. Roundabout Oscar (by Ted Berrigan) (1:21)

complete reading (39:15): MP3



Reading and Interview on Ceptuetics Radio, April 2, 2008 (39:56) MP3
Hosted by Kareem Estefan. Berrigan reads from Some Notes on My Programming (Edge, 2006) and Have A Good One, a 46-page poem composed of 97 short poems sharing that title. Estefan and Berrigan talk about Berrigan's writing's connection to loss, poetry as political forum, and the structure of his new serial poem.


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