Saturday, May 13, 8:00 pm

Anselm Berrigan and Rod Smith

@ Ruthless Grip at
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Anselm Berrigan is a poet and the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project
at St. Mark's Church in New York City. He has a brand new book entitled
Some Notes on My Programming, published by DC's Edge Books. Edge also
published Berrigan's prior books, Zero Star Hotel and Integrity & Dramatic
Life. He lives in New York, where he was raised.

Rod Smith is the author of Music or Honesty, The Good House, In Memory of
My Theories, The Boy Poems, Protective Immediacy, New Mannerist Tricycle
with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma, and Fear the Sky, a CD from Narrow House
Recordings. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies
including Anthology of New (American) Poets, The Baffler, The Gertrude
Stein Awards, Java, New American Writing, Open City, Poetics Journal,
Shenandoah, and The Washington Review. He edits Aerial magazine and
publishes Edge Books. The next issue of Aerial will focus on the poet Lyn
Hejinian. Smith is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The
Selected Letters of Robert Creeley for the  University of California
Press.