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 &amp; Writers Collaborative for twenty years. In 2016, he won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for "Zone: Selected Poems" by Guillaume Apollinaire.