Ron Padgett

Ron Padgett ( born June 17, 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American poet who is counted in the New York School of Poetry.

Life

Padgett began his studies in English Literature and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York in the fall of 1960. He earned his BA In 1964. Important teachers were Kay Boyle, Howard Nemerov and Kenneth Koch, who interested him for French poetry, surrealism and Dada. Padgett then went with a Fulbright Fellowship to Paris. Since 1966 he lives in New York.

He was a poetry workshop leader at the St. Mark's - in-the- Bowery (1968 /69) and then taught until 1976 poetry in public schools of New York Poets in the Schools program. From 1978 to 1981 he was a director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project. It was from about 1982 to 1999 the person responsible for the publications of the Teachers & Writers Collaborative and alongside Joan Sloan and Anne Waldman a publisher of Full Court Press (ca. 1973-1989 ). Padgett had edited with Dick Gallup and Joe Brainard, even as a high school student in Tulsa a literary magazine, the White Dove Review ( 5 numbers in 1959 /60).

Selections

  • In Advance of the Broken Arm. C Press, New York 1964
  • Ted Berrigan & Joe Brainard: Some Things. C Press, New York 1964
  • Two Stories for Andy Warhol. C Press, New York 1965
  • Sky: An opener. Goliards Press, Bellingham, WA, 1966
  • Ted Berrigan & Joe Brainard: Bean spasms: Poems and Prose. Kulchur Press, New York 1967
  • Great Balls of Fire. . Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 1969 Revised reprint: Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1990. Great balls of fire. Rowohlt, the new book, No. 34, Reinbek 1973
  • The Complete Writings of Joe Brainard with an introduction by Paul Auster. Library of America, New York City, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-598531497.
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