Happy Birthday, Ted Berrigan November 15, 2012: Guillaume Apollinaire is dead, but it's Ted Berrigan's birthday! The sonneteer would have been 78 today. But he was much more than a sonneteer. In honor of the poet, let's point you to Berrigan's UbuWeb Sound page, which includes a full reading of The Sonnets and, among much else, the infamous tearjerker, "Red Shift," courtesy of PennSound, by [...] by Harriet Staff

No Longer Shrouded in Legend: Granary Books Republishes Bean Spasms May 29, 2012: So it turns out Ted Berrigan was exceedingly good with these landmark collaborations. Did you know that the highly desired Bean Spasms is back in print? "Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett's BEAN SPASMS is the defining publication of the 1960s literary/Pop scene in New York. Originally published in 1967 by Kulchur Press in an edition [...] by Harriet Staff

Long-Lost Recording of Anne Waldman & Ted Berrigan’s Landmark Collab ‘Memorial Day’ Is Found in Robert Creeley Tape Collection May 29, 2012: We don't want you to miss this one, even if we're a day past Memorial Day. Michael Hennessy of PennSound unveiled, yesterday, "a long lost recording of Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman’s 'Memorial Day' from a May 5, 1971 reading at the Saint Mark’s Poetry Project." There's a fascinating history to this recording too--it was found amidst [...] by Harriet Staff

A note on San Francisco Blues April 18, 2012:   Over the course of his 1968 interview with Ted Berrigan for The Paris Review, Jack Kerouac is asked, “Why must the method for writing poetry differ from that of prose?” Kerouac responds, “As for my regular English verse, I knocked it out fast like the prose, using, get this, the size of the notebook page for the form and length [...] by Cedar Sigo