In Broken Filter’s dozen poems orcas speak, hips are replaced, the poet is fake assassinated, and a proposal for all holy sites on the planet to be made into a ring around Earth is articulated. Family members are addressed, hallucinations are revisited, & dreams are allowed to be present as dreams as the poet tries to figure out if there’s really such a thing as recovery. The poems are blunt, warped, precise, and funny.

Anselm Berrigan’s most recent book of poetry is Don’t Forget to Love Me, from Wave Books. He is the 2025 Bagley-Wright Lecturer.