Nobody should have been surprised when, on January 7, 1972, the poet John Berryman killed himself by jumping off the Washington Avenue Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River where it winds between ...

John Berryman was a beloved University of Minnesota professor when he took his life in 1972 by jumping off the Washington Avenue bridge in Minneapolis. He was 57. Forty-two years later, this brilliant ...

The poet John Berryman would be turning 100 on Oct. 25, were he alive, and his publisher is celebrating the centenary with three re-issued collections and one new one, “The Heart is Strange” (Oct. 21) ...

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John Berryman won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his two volumes of Dream Songs. Terrence Spencer Courtesy photo “The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems” by John Berryman, edited by ...

‘I imagine you have heard the terrible news” writes poet John Berryman in his masterwork “The Dream Songs,” a dark refrain that echoes throughout his writing. Now, in addition to his poetic oeuvre, ...

Whether we like it or not, the final season of HBO's satirical black comedy Succession is coming to a close. While there's no way of knowing who will come out on top, what we do know is there's a ...

The Book House in Dinkytown offers an evening of poetry, reminiscence and shared experience for those who knew, who remember and who read and relish the poetry of John Berryman the Minnesota bard who ...

For a poet who is attempting what many consider to be the most radical of recent experiments with language--the Dream Songs--John Berryman's poetic is ruthlessly functional. "The ordinary modern ...

Kevin Young joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Berryman’s poem “A Sympathy, A Welcome” and his own poem “Oblivion.” Tuesday’s elections were often described as a contest between the far left ...

For a poet who is attempting what many consider to be the most radical of recent experiments with language--the Dream Songs--John Berryman's poetic is ruthlessly functional. "The ordinary modern ...