Ron Padgett
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Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a New York School student.
Bean Spasms, Padlock's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and was written with Ted Berrigan.
He received the Shelley Memorial Award in 2009.
He received the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal in 2018.
Early life and education
Padt's father was a bootlegger in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He influenced many of Padgett's books, particularly in the writer's obsession with freedom and a willingness to defy against rules, even his own. This would later be described as a stubborn streak of boyishness, giving his poetry a wry innocence.
At the age of 13, Padgett began writing poetry. In a private interview, the poet said he was inspired to write after a girl he had a big crush on did not return his love. Padgett, a high school student, became interested in visual arts as a writer of poetry. Joe Brainard, the experimental artist who also became a well-known writer, befriended him. The White Dove Review was co-founded by the writers and fellow Central High student Dick Gallup. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones, Paul Blackburn, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Robert Creeley were among the writers whose work for The White Dove was solicited by Padt and Gallup. The White Dove was retired after five years, Padman, on his way to college, was fired.
Padt moved from Tulsa to Columbia College in New York City in 1960. At that time, he was interested in Pound, Rimbaud, the Black Mountain poets, and the Beats, but it was soon under the influence of the New York School, especially Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch. Padt said in an interview that he went to Columbia partially because Ginsberg and Kerouac had been there. Since graduating with a B.A. degree, he decided to go back to school. (1964) Padt briefly studied creative writing at Wagner College with Kay Boyle, Howard Nemerov, and Koch. He studied twentieth-century French poetry on a Fulbright Fellowship (Paris, 1965–66).
Personal life
Padgett and his wife, Patricia Padgett, who grew up in Tulsa, have lived in the same East Village apartment since 1967. In Vermont, where they spend their summers, they also have a rustic retreat. Wayne, the couple's son, was born in 1966.
Career
Padgett was a workshop leader for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City from 1968 to 1969. An Anthology of New York Poets was co-edited by David Shapiro and published in Random House in 1970. In 1972, he began The Poetry Project Newsletter. Padgett has served in poet-in-the-school programs around the country from 1969 to 1976. He served as The Poetry Project's director for two and a half years, before heading The Teachers & Writers Collaborative (1980-2000), where he also edited The Teachers & Writers Collaborative Newsletter.
Padlett was a founder, publisher, and editor of Full Court Press from 1973 to 1988, selling copies by Ginsberg, Brainard, O'Hara, Edwin Denby, Edwin Denby, Tom Veitch, William S. Burroughs, Philippe Soupault, John Godfrey, and others. He lectured and taught at various educational institutions, including Atlantic Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn College, and Columbia University. He also ran a poetry radio show and was the programmer of computer writing games. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University holds Padt's papers.