Ted Berrigan notebooks
Born in Rhode Island, Berrigan earned his BA and MA from the University of Tulsa after serving in the army during the Korean War. Although he lived for short times in Chicago, Buffalo, Iowa City, and England, he spent most of his time in New York, where he edited and published C Magazine and C Press Books and taught at St. Mark's Poetry Project. Before that, Berrigan was writer-in-residence/visiting poet at the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he met the Alice Notley, whom he married in 1972. He also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Yale University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Essex in England, Northeastern Illinois University, and the Naropa Institute. In 1979 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the author of more than 20 books. These 10 notebooks represent nearly 20 years of writing, but mainly cover his early work from 1959-1963.
Dates
- 1959-1978
Creator
- Berrigan, Ted (Person)
Language of Materials
Conditions Governing Access
Copyright
Extent
3 linear feet (10 notebooks in 3 boxes)
Biographical Note
Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) was born in Providence, Rhode Island. After attending Providence College for a year, he joined the army, serving in Korea. He received a BA in English from the University of Tulsa in 1959 and an MA in 1962. Berrigan moved to New York in the early 1960s where he edited and published C Magazine and C Press Books.
Berrigan taught at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and was writer-in-residence/visiting poet at the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he met the Alice Notley, whom he married in 1972. They spent time in New York, Buffalo, Chicago, and England before settling in New York.
Berrigan also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Yale University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Essex in England, Northeastern Illinois University, and the Naropa Institute. In 1979 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the author of more than 20 books, including The Sonnets (1964), Bean Spasms (with Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard) (1967), Poems, In Brief (1971), Red Wagon (1976), and A Certain Slant of Sunlight (1988).
Acquisition Information
Creator
- Berrigan, Ted (Person)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Ted Berrigan notebooks
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Marie Elia.
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
- Language of description
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the The Poetry Collection Repository
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