Ron Padgett

Ron Padgett
Born (1942-06-17) June 17, 1942 (age 84)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, US
Occupationpoet, writer, translator
EducationColumbia University
Notable worksCollected Poems

Ron Padgett (June 17, 1942) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator. He is connected to the New York School of poets.

Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. In high school he started a magazine with friends Dick Gallup and Joe Brainard. The magazine printed the work of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones (now, Amiri Baraka), Ted Berrigan, and others. Padgett moved to New York City in 1960. He went to Columbia University and studied with poet Kenneth Koch and critic Lionel Trilling.

Padgett worked with New York City's Teachers & Writers Collaborative for twenty years. In 2016, he won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire.

Works

Memoirs

  • Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan (1993)
  • Albanian Diary (1999)
  • Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers (2003)
  • Joe: A Personal Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004)

Translations

  • The Poet Assassinated by Guillaume Apollinaire, illustrated by Jim Dine (1968)
  • Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne (1971)
  • Kodak by Blaise Cendrars (1976)
  • The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth by Valery Larbaud (1977; revised 2008, with Bill Zavatsky)
  • Complete Poems by Blaise Cendrars (1992)
  • Complete Fiction by Serge Fauchereau with John Ashbery (2002)
  • Prose Poems by Pierre Reverdy (2007)
  • Flash Cards by Yu Jian with Wang Ping (2010)
  • Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire (2015)

References

  1. ↑ "About Ron Padgett | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  2. ↑ "Harold Morton Landon Translation Award | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2023-03-08.

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