Ted Berrigan

Ted Berrigan (November 15, 1934 – July 4, 1983) was an American poet.
Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island to an Irish Catholic family. He left college after one year to join the U. S. Army. He served from 1954 to 1957. He got his BA (1959) and his MA (1962) from the University of Tulsa. He gave his diploma back to the university because, he said, he was "a master of no art."
He moved to New York in the early 1960s. He was an important part of the second generation of what is called the New York School of poets. which included Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Clark Coolidge and Jim Carroll. He was married to the poet Alice Notley. They were parents to the poets Anselm and Edmund Berrigan.
Berrigan taught at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York. He was writer-in-residence / visiting poet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 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.
After a long illness connected to hepatitis and liver damage, Berrigan died in 1983.