Anselm Berrigan‘s recent books of poetry includeCome In Alone, available this April from Wave, andPrimitive State a book-length poem from Edge Books (2015). He is the Poetry Editor for the Brooklyn Rail, former Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and co-editor of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan. Other recent works include Pregrets, a booklet from Vagabond Press (2014), and Loading, a collaborative book with painter Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013).

Bob Holman is Founder/proprietor, Bowery Poetry Club, original slam master, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, curator/coordinator, St. Marks Poetry Project. “Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues,” (premiered at Margaret Mead Film Festival, NYC, Viewers Choice Award, Sadho Poetry Film Festival, New Delhi), “Language Matters with Bob Holman” (PBS, “Best Doc” at Berkeley Film Festival), “On the Road with Bob Holman” (LinkTV), “The United States of Poetry” (PBS, INPUT International Public TV Award). “Exploding Text: Poetry Performance” at Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School; “Embodied Poetics” at Naropa (this spring). The Cut-Outs (Matisse) (Peeka Boo Press, forthcoming), Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House Press), A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture). Upcoming, June 3-8: co-director of “The Beats and Beyond: A Gathering,” at Bowery Poetry Club, Howl Happening, The Poetry Project (DiPrima, McClure, Kyger, Sanders, Giorno, David Henderson, Hettie Jones, Margaret Randall, Steve Cannon).

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