Berrigan, Ted

Born in 1934 in Providence, Rhode Island, poet Ted Berrigan attended the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He was a second-generation member of the New York school of poets, and along with Ron Padgett, published a small literary magazine, C, during 1963 and 1964. He taught at Yale University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, the University of Michigan, and Essex University in England, and also served as poet-in-residence at the City College of New York. Among his published volumes of poetry are The Sonnets (1964), Bean Spasms: Collaborations by Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett (1967), In the Early Morning Rain (1971), The Drunken Boat (1974), and So Going Around Cities (1980). He died in 1983.

Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), was born Edmund Joseph Micheal Berrigan, Jr. in Providence, Rhode Island. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1954-1957, he graduated from the University of Tulsa with a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and a Master of Arts in 1962. He soon moved to New York City and published his first book of poetry, THE SONNETS, in 1964. Other works include TRAIN RIDE (1978) and YO-YO'S WITH MONEY (1979), which he co-authored with fellow New York poet Harris Schiff. In addition to publishing poetry, Berrigan also edited C magazine and taught workshops at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, and frequently collaborated with other poets and artists known as the second generation of New York School of Poets, including his second wife Alice Notley, Joe Brainard, Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Berrigan died on July 4, 1983.

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American poet affiliated with the New York School of poetry.

Poet, periodical editor, and teacher, of New York, N.Y.; b. 1945.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Ted Berrigan, born Edmund Joseph Michael Berrigan, Jr. in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1934, was a member of the second generation of the New York School of Poets. After a year at Providence College, Berrigan enlisted in the army. He served in Korea, and, upon his return, enrolled at the University of Tulsa where he received his bachelor's degree in English in 1959 and his master's in 1962.

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Considering himself a late Beat poet, Berrigan drew inspiration from American Expressionism. He also embraced the Beat lifestyle, hitchhiking across the United States and experimenting with drugs. His work is most often compared to that of Frank O'Hara, a poet whom he greatly admired and mentioned in his earlier journals.

BIOGHIST REQUIRED In 1962, Berrigan met and married Sandra Alpers who was eight years his junior and considered a minor in her home state of Florida. Sandy, as he called her, spent the first two months of their marriage in a mental institution in Miami where her parents had her committed because of the marriage. The two went on to have two children, David and Kate, before separating in 1965, due in large part to Berrigan's infidelities. In 1972 he married poet Alice Notley, and they had two sons, Anselm and Edmund.

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Berrigan published his most significant work, The Sonnets, in 1964. That same year he, along with Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard, founded C: A Journal of Poetry. Berrigan also met with success in the classroom, gaining student followings at the various schools where he taught courses in poetry.

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Berrigan was in poor health and essentially homebound his final few years after decades of drug use and diet pill abuse. Ted Berrigan died in July 1983 at the age of 48.