Ron Padgett

Author of The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms

47+ Works 799 Members 17 Reviews

About the Author

Ron Padgett has lived most of his life in New York City. Among his honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters poetry award, and the Shelley Memorial Award. Padgett's How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and his Collected Poems won the William Carlos Williams show more Award from the Poetry Society of America as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the best poetry book of 2013. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. show less

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Works by Ron Padgett

How to Be Perfect (2007) 51 copies

World Poets (2000) 37 copies

Joe: a Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004) 36 copies

Collected Poems (2013) 35 copies

An Anthology of New York Poets (1970) 31 copies

You Never Know (2002) 30 copies

Great Balls of Fire (1969) 28 copies

New & Selected Poems (1995) 21 copies

How Long (2011) 20 copies

Alone and Not Alone (2015) 19 copies

The Big Something (1990) 14 copies

Creative Reading: What It Is, How to Do It, and Why (1997) 14 copies

Big Cabin (2019) 13 copies

Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan (1993) 13 copies

The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron (1970) 12 copies

Tulsa Kid (1979) 12 copies

The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets (2000) 10 copies

The Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman (1991) 10 copies

Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers (2003) 9 copies

Toujours l'amour: Poems. (1976) 7 copies

Dot (2022) 6 copies

Poems I Guess I Wrote (2001) 6 copies

Poemas Escolhidos (2000) 5 copies

Antlers in the Treetops (1973) 5 copies

Blood Work: Selected Prose (1993) 5 copies

Albanian Diary (1999) 5 copies

Supernatural Overtones (1990) 4 copies

Triangles in the Afternoon: Poems (1979) 4 copies

How to Be a Woodpecker (1983) 3 copies

Motor Maids across the Continent (2017) 3 copies

Bean Spasms 3 copies

Die schönsten Streichhölzer der Welt: Gedichte. Englisch - Deutsch (2017) 2 copies

In Advance of the Broken Arm (1964) 2 copies

Crazy Compositions. (1974) 2 copies

If I Were You (2007) 2 copies

Cómo ser perfecto : antología poética bilingüe (2018) 1 copy

Zone: Selected Poems 1 copy

Farvel, vesle Lettera : dikt om dikt (2013) 1 copy

Bullseye: Stories and Poems by Outstanding High School Writers (1995) 1 copy

Encore with Rectangle and Philosophy (2019) 1 copy

Comment Devenir Parfait (2017) 1 copy

White Dove Review, Volume 1, Number 1, 1959 1 copy

White Dove Review, Volume 2 Number 5, Summer Issue 1960 1 copy

Prose Poems 1 copy

Teachers Manual for the Writing Book (1986) 1 copy

Making It Up 1 copy

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Associated Works

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributor — 774 copies

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Contributor — 598 copies

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Contributor — 365 copies

Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1967) — Translator, some editions — 261 copies

The Best American Poetry 2008 (2008) — Contributor — 136 copies

The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993) — Contributor — 129 copies

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (2012) — Editor — 118 copies

The Best American Poetry 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 97 copies

Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems (1991) — Editor — 63 copies

Zone: selected poems (2015) — Translator, some editions — 49 copies

Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism (1963) — Afterword, some editions — 40 copies

Bad Moon Rising (1973) — Contributor — 23 copies

Love Can Be: A Literary Collection about Our Animals (2018) — Contributor — 7 copies

Saturday Morning, Vol. II no. 1 & 2 (New York City Issue) — Contributor — 3 copies

Sugar, alcohol, & meat [sound recording] (1980) — Contributor — 2 copies

Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Number 1, The Alice Notley Issue — Contributor — 1 copy

Lines, No. 6 — Contributor — 1 copy

Diana's Bimonthly, Vol. I, No. 1, The First Rag — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Padgett, Ron
Birthdate: 1942-06-17
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Occupations: poet
Awards and honors: American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)

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Reviews

Big Cabin by Ron Padgett

Others might hear Adam Driver, but Mr. Dommer, I hear your voice when I read this book.

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boermsea | 2 other reviews | Jan 22, 2024 |

The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim & Ron by Ron Padgett; Jim Dine

A collaboration with text by Padgett and drawings and photographs by Dine.

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petervanbeveren | Nov 3, 2023 |

Alone and Not Alone by Ron Padgett

A fun, quirky collection with a few gems, especially "The Street," which has a slow, powerful beauty.

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lschiff | 1 other review | Sep 24, 2023 |

The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron Padgett

A simple, but not skimpy dictionary of the different types of poetry. I learned more about the forms I knew about while learning some new ones. This book inspired me to try some new forms of poetry!

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Thomas.Cannon | 2 other reviews | Dec 7, 2021 |

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