Ron Padgett

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Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) is an American poet who is counted to the New York School of Poetry . Padgett himself, however, rejects this categorization.

Life

Padgett began studying English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York in the fall of 1960. He received his BA in 1964. Important teachers were Kay Boyle, Howard Nemerov and Kenneth Koch , who interested him in French poetry, surrealism and Dada. Padgett then went to Paris on a Fulbright Fellowship . He has lived in New York since 1966 .

He was a poetry workshop leader at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery (1968/69) and then taught poetry in New York public schools in the Poets in the Schools program until 1976 . From 1978 to 1981 he was a director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project. From about 1982 to 1999 he was responsible for the publications of the Teachers & Writers Collaborative and alongside Joan Sloan and Anne Waldman one of the publishers of the Full Court Press (about 1973-1989). Padgett, with Dick Gallup and Joe Brainard , had already published a literary magazine as a high school student in Tulsa, the White Dove Review (5 issues, 1959/60).

For the film Paterson he wrote the poems of the bus driver Paterson (2016).

In 2018, Padgett received the Frost Medal .

Selection of works

  • In Advance of the Broken Arm . C Press, New York 1964
  • with Ted Berrigan & Joe Brainard: Some Things . C Press, New York 1964
  • Two Stories for Andy Warhol . C Press, New York 1965
  • Sky: An opener . Goliards Press, Bellingham, WA, 1966
  • with Ted Berrigan & Joe Brainard: Bean Spasms: Poems and Prose . Kulchur Press, New York 1967
  • Great Balls of Fire . Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 1969. Revised edition: Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1990.
    • Big fireballs . Rowohlt, the new book , No. 34, Reinbek 1973
  • with Jim Dine : The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Ron . Grossman / Viking 1970
  • Sweet pea . Aloes 1971
  • Toujours l'amour . SUN, New York 1976
  • Tulsa Kid . Z Press, Calais, VT, 1979
  • Triangles in the afternoon . SUN, New York 1980
  • The Big Something The Figures, 1990
  • Blood Work: Selected Prose . Bamberger Books, 1993
  • Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan . The Figures, 1993
  • New and Selected Poems . David R. Godine, Boston 1995.
  • Albanian Diary . The Figures, 1999
  • The Straight Line: Writings on Poetry & Poets . University of Michigan Press, 2000
  • Poems I Guess I Wrote . Cuz Editions 2001
  • You never know . Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2002
  • Oklahoma Tough . University of Oklahoma, 2003
  • Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard . Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2004
  • How to Be Perfect . Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2008.
  • The most beautiful matches in the world: poems. English - German (Ed / Translator Jan Volker Röhnert) Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2017
as editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Epstein: Why I Am Not a "New York School Poet": Ron Padgett edition. In: Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets. January 7, 2015, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The poem A Man Saw a Ball of Gold from it, also in German by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , in: March Texts 1 & Trivialmythen. Area, Erftstadt 2004, p. 52
personal data
SURNAME Padgett, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulsa , Oklahoma