Ron Padgett | |
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Born | Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. | June 17, 1942
Occupation | Poet, writer, translator |
Education | Columbia University (BA) Wagner College |
Notable works | Collected Poems |
Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Great Balls of Fire, Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award.[1] In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America.[2]