“Too many things”
Ted Berrigan, in a 1962 journal: “Too many things make everything less.”
A Caedmon drawing and anecdote
A drawing from a record cover, an anecdote from Ron Padgett.
ChatGPT fail
I asked ChatGPT to write a 500-word analysis of Ted Berrigan’s poem “Red Shift.” It produced text with fake quotations that had nothing to do with the poem.
A Ted Berrigan event
At Magic City Books, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Literature clock
I would like to know if it has 5:15 a.m., but I wouldn’t want to have to get up that early to find out.
“Who cares?”
A story from Ron Padgett’s Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan.
Winter afternoons
Dickinson’s poem sits in a folder in my head with Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” and “Neutral Tones” and Ted Berrigan’s “A Certain Slant of Sunlight.”
Cabbing with Kafka
Ron Padgett: “We literati started talking about Kafka’s work, and the driver called out, ‘You talkin’ about Kafka the author?’”
An attendance policy
From Ted Berrigan.
Happy birthday, Ted Berrigan
A postcard poem.
Beans Spasms returns
Collaborations by Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Joe Brainard.
A poem for New Year's Eve
by Ted Berrigan
Canon-formation
Ted Berrigan's Collected Poems