Anslem Berrigan & Karen Weiser
UCSD’s New Writing Series announces a reading from poets Anslem Berrigan and Karen Weiser in the Visual Arts Presentation Lab, Structural and Mechanical Engineering Building (SME 149).
Anselm Berrigan's books of poetry include Come In Alone (Wave, 2016) and Primitive State (Edge, 2015). Other books include Notes from Irrelevance, Free Cell, and Skasers (with John Coletti). He is currently editing a book of interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter, to be published by Wave Books in spring of 2017 (title:What Is Poetry?: Just Kidding, I Know You Know). He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, a former Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and co-chair, Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
Karen Weiser is a poet who lives in New York City. Her second collection of poems entitled Or, The Ambiguities (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015) was written in conversation with the works of Herman Melville. Her first book To Light Out (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) considered the idea of talking with the unknown while pregnant. She's currently working on two projects, a book of poems tentatively titled Spells for Solids, some of which are visual poems, and a libretto for an opera entitled You Who Made the Heavens Incline about 9th century Byzantine nun Kassia, who is widely considered to be one of the first famous female composers. She is a 2014 NYFA Poetry Fellow and was recently residencies through The Marble House, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and LMCC.
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