Ron Padgett

American writer and translator · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1942 · age 84

Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Great Balls of Fire, Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America.

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2018Robert Frost MedalAward2016Harold Morton Landon Translation AwardAward2009Shelley Memorial AwardAward1986Guggenheim FellowshipAward1942Born17 June 1942

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