Poetry. Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. A member of the Tulsa School of Poets, he received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964, the same year he won the Gotham Bookmart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize. He spent 1965-1966 in Paris on a Fulbright. Since 1969 he has been associated with Teachers & Writers Collaborative and numerous Poets in the Schools programs. In 1974-1976 he worked as a Writer in the Community in Lancaster, South Carolina...
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