Ann Lauterbach with Anselm Berrigan

Ann Lauterbach has published ten collections of poetry including Spell (Penguin, 2018). Her prose has been collected in The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (Viking, 2006); The Given & The Chosen; and Saint Petersburg Notebook. She has written on artists such as Joe Brainard, Kenji Fujita and Cheyney Thompson, among others. Her 2009 collection, Or to Begin Again was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been, since 1990, co-Chair of Writing in the interdisciplinary Milton Avery School of the Arts and, since 1997, Ruth and David Schwab II Professor of Languages and Literature, at Bard College. She lives in Germantown, New York.

Anselm Berrigan is the poetry editor for the Brooklyn Rail, and author of a number of books of poems, most recently Pregrets, from Black Square Editions.