What is Ron Padgett?
{{Infobox writer | image = RP by John Sarsgard cropped.jpg | image_size = | alt = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|6|17}} | birth_place = [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], US | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = poet, writer, translator | education = [[Columbia University]] | notableworks = ''Collected Poems'' | spouse = | children = }} '''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]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=About Ron Padgett {{!}} Academy of American Poets|url=https://poets.org/poet/ron-padgett|access-date=2023-03-08|website=poets.org}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Harold Morton Landon Translation Award {{!}} Academy of American Poets|url=https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/harold-morton-landon-translation-award|access-date=2023-03-08|website=poets.org}}</ref> ==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 (poet)|Tom Clark]] (1968) *''Gr