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with Ruth Gruber” (
Talking in Tranquility: Interviews with Ted Berrigan
[Bolinas and Oakland: Avenue B and O Books, 1991]), a dual interview with Ted and George Oppen: “I like to know all the groups, because that way is the most fun, and the most interesting.”
1964
The first edition of
The Sonnets
published under the “C” imprint. Gave first reading in New York at Le Metro Café with Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn, Frank O’Hara, and Michael Goldberg in the audience. Began writing reviews for the magazine
Kulchur
. Received a Poets Foundation Grant. Probably met or by now had met John Ashbery, whose work he published in “
C
” and who, though living in France, returned to New York from time to time for readings. In 1964 Ashbery gave an electrifying reading of his long poem “The Skaters,” an occasion which Ted referred to throughout his life. Around this time worked on long unpublished prose work,
Looking for Chris
, not all of which survives.
1965
Intensive period of writing for
Art News
lasting through 1966, though Ted’s art writing would continue sporadically until his death. Attended Berkeley Poetry Conference. Met Ed Dorn, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, Lew Welch, and Robert Duncan there. Kate Berrigan born.
1966
Death of Frank O’Hara. Served on the advisory board of the Poetry Project. Taught the first writing workshop offered at the Project and continued to serve as a teacher off and on until 1979. This was his first poetry teaching post, though that same year he began an intermittent but ongoing participation in the Writers in the Schools Poetry Program. By or around this time had met George Schneeman, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Tom Clark, Bernadette Mayer, Peter Schjeldahl, Lewis MacAdams, John Godfrey, Donna Dennis, Larry Fagin, Aram Saroyan, Clark Coolidge, Bill Berkson, John Giorno.
1967
The Sonnets
published by Grove Press.
Bean Spasms
, a collaborative book with Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard, published by Kulchur Press. Ted interviewed Jack Kerouac (with Aram Saroyan and Duncan Mac-Naughton) for the
Paris Review
(interview first published in vol. 11, no.43 [Summer 1968]). Received a Poets Foundation Grant and a National Anthology of Literature Award for “An Interview with John Cage,” which was a fabricated interview using Cageian methods.
1968
Left New York to take a writer-in-residence position at the University of Iowa, the Writers’ Workshop, from fall 1968 through spring 1969. Met Anselm Hollo, Gordon Brotherston, Merrill Gilfillan, and others.
1969
Separated from Sandy Alper Berrigan.
Many Happy Returns
published by Corinth Press. Met Alice Notley. Taught fall semester at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. (Lecturer in English and American Literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.) Friendship with Donald Hall.
1970
Guillaume Apollinaire Ist Tot. Und Anderes
, a selection of Ted’s work with German translations by Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann, published in Germany by März Verlag.
In the Early Morning Rain
published by Cape Goliard Press in England. Taught at Yale University in the spring as Teaching Fellow at Bramford College. Replaced Jack Clarke at the University of Buffalo that summer, where Ted’s classes included the mythology course originally established by Charles Olson.
1970–71
Transitional period of moving from place to place with Alice Notley. Lived in Southampton, Long Island (in Larry Rivers’s garage), New York, Providence, and Bolinas. Bolinas at this time included in its community Lewis MacAdams, Joanne Kyger, Don Allen, Phil Whalen, Tom Clark, Robert Creeley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Bill Berkson, et al.
1972
Married Alice Notley. Moved to Chicago and taught at Northeastern Illinois University, following Ed Dorn as Poet in Residence, from winter 1972 until spring 1973. Anselm Berrigan born. Met Bob Rosenthal, Rochelle Kraut, Hank Kanabus, Art Lange and many others, some of whom subsequently moved to New York. Began working on
Easter