Ron
Padgett’s recent books include How to Be Perfect
(poems), You Never Know (poems), If I Were You
(collaborative works), and two memoirs, Oklahoma Tough: My
Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers and Joe: A Memoir
of Joe Brainard. Padgett is also the editor of The
Handbook of Poetic Forms as well as the translator of
Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems and Guillaume
Apollinaire's The Poet Assassinated. He has
collaborated with artists such as Jim Dine, Alex Katz, George
Schneeman, and Joe Brainard. Padgett has received Fulbright,
NEA, Guggenheim, and Civitella Ranieri grants and fellowships,
and was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the
French government. Recently he was elected Chancellor of the
Academy of American Poets. His translation (with Bill
Zavatsky) of Valery Larbaud's Poems of A. O. Barnabooth
was published in 2007 by Black Widow
Books.
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