Ron Padgett, born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a poet and member of the New York School. His books include Great Balls of Fire,The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Ron (with Jim Dine), Toujours l'amour,Tulsa Kid,Triangles in the Afternoon,Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan,Poems I Guess I Wrote,You Never Know,Oklahoma Tough, and others. Tulsa is the second-largest city in Oklahoma. ... The New York School was an informal group of American poets and painters active in 1950s New York City. ...
He was also an associate of Teachers & Writers Collaborative for many years and their director of publications. His works on education and writing include The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms(editor), The Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman(editor), (Teachers & Writers, 1991), editor, Educating the Imagination(co-editor), and many others. He was also editor of Teachers & Writers Magazine from 1980-2000. Teachers & Writers Collaborative is an organization that sends writers and other artists into the schools. ...
RonPadgett - Poems and Biography by AmericanPoems.com
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1942, RonPadgett is the author of numerous works including the poetry collections Great Balls of Fire, Triangles in the Afternoon, and The Big Something; a volume of selected prose entitled Blood Work; and translations of books by Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, and Marcel Duchamp.
RonPadgett lives in New York City, where he is the Publications Director for Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
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