Ron Padgett

Ron Padgett:  How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and his Collected Poems won the L.A. Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, from whom he also received the Frost medal.  His translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars’ Complete Poems. His poems were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film, Paterson.