Ron Padgett grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has lived mostly in New York since 1960. He has been the recipient of several awards, such as a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Poetry Award, the Shelley Memorial Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work How Long was a finalist for the Pulitzer Poetry Prize and his Collected Poems won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award and the Los Angeles Times’ Literary award for the best poetry book of 2013. In addition to being a poet, he is a translator of Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy and Blaise Cendrars. His work has been translated into eighteen languages.
Ron Padgett
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