Ron Padgett

**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

- _Summer Balloons,_ (1960)
- _In Advance of the Broken Arm_ (1964)
- _Some Things_ with Ted Berrigan and Joe Brainard (1964)
- _Two Stories for Andy Warhol_ (1965)
- _Sky_ (1966)
- _Bean Spasms: Poems and Prose_ with Ted Berrigan (1967; reprinted 2012)
- _Tone Arm_, (1967)
- _100,000 Fleeing Hilda_ with Joe Brainard (1967)
- _Bun_ with Tom Clark (1968)
- _Great Balls of Fire_ (1969; revised 1990)
- _The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron_ with Jim Dine (1970)
- _Antlers in the Treetops_ with Tom Veitch (1970)
- _Sweet Pea_ (1971)
- _Poetry Collection_ (1971)
- _Sufferin' Succotash_ with Joe Brainard (1971)
- _Back in Boston Again_ with Ted Berrigan and Tom Clark (1972)
- _Oo La La_ with Jim Dine (1973)
- _Crazy Compositions_ (1974)
- _The World of Leon_ with others (1974)
- _Toujours l'amour_ (1976)
- _Arrive by Pullman_ with George Schneeman (1978)
- _Tulsa Kid_ (1979)
- _Triangles in the Afternoon_ (1980)
- _How to Be a Woodpecker_ with Trevor Winkfield (1983)
- _How to Be Modern Art_ with Trevor Winkfield (1984)
- _Light as Air_ with Alex Katz (1988)
- _The Big Something_ (1989)
- _Blood Work: Selected Prose_ (1993)
- _New and Selected Poems_ (1995)
- _You Never Know_ (2001)
- _How to Be Perfect_(2007)
- _How Long_ (2011)
- _Collected Poems_ (2013)
- _Alone and Not Alone_ (2015)
- _How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide_ with Jason Novak (2016)
- _Big Cabin_ (2019)
- _Encore with Philosophy and Rectangle_ with Trevor Winkfield  (2019)
- _Dot_ (2022

### 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)

## Related pages

- List of poets from North America

## Other websites

- Ron Padgett at PennSound

## Infobox (writer)

- **image**: RP by John Sarsgard cropped.jpg
- **birth place**: Tulsa, Oklahoma, US
- **occupation**: poet, writer, translator
- **education**: Columbia University
- **notableworks**: _Collected Poems_