RON PADGETT

Books of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays (partial listing)

Bean Spasms (Kulchur, 1967), with Ted Berrigan
Great Balls of Fire (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969; revised ed., Coffee House Press, 1990))
The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Ron (Grossman/Viking, 1970), with Jim Dine
Antlers in the Treetops (Coach House, 1970), with Tom Veitch
Toujours l'amour (SUN, 1976)
Tulsa Kid (Z Press, 1979)
Triangles in the Afternoon (SUN, 1979)
Among the Blacks (Avenue B, 1988)
The Big Something (The Figures, 1990)
Blood Work: Selected Prose (Bamberger Books, 1993)
Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan (The Figures, 1993)
New & Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 1995)

Works on Education and Writing

The Point (Teachers & Writers, 1983), editor, with Nancy Shapiro
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (Teachers & Writers, 1987), editor
Two Computer Writing Games: Pantoum and Acrostic (Teachers & Writers, 1989)
Poetic Forms (Teachers & Writers, 1989), ten audiotaped radio programs
The Writing Book (Teachers & Writers, 1989)
The Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman (Teachers & Writers, 1991), editor
Educating the Imagination (Teachers & Writers, 1994), editor, with Chris Edgar
Old Faithful: 18 Writers Present their Favorite Writing Assignments (Teachers & Writers, 1995), editor, with
Chris Edgar
Creative Reading (National Council of Teachers of English, 1997)
Editor, Teachers & Writers magazine, 1980-present

Translations

The Poet Assassinated by Guillaume Apollinaire (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968)
Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne (Viking, 1971)
Kodak by Blaise Cendrars (Adventures in Poetry, 1976)
The Poems of A. 0. Barnabooth by Valery Larbaud (Mushinsha, Ltd., 1977)
The Poet Assassinated and Other Stories by Guillaume ApoUinaire (North Point, 1984)
Complete Poems by Blaise Cendrars (University of California, 1992)

Other Works (partial listing)

Oo La La (Petersburg Press, London & N.Y., 1973), collaborative lithographs with Jim Dine
Light As Air (Pace Editions, 1988), prose poems, with etchings by Alex Katz

Literary Works in Translation

Grosse Feuerballe (Powolt Verlag, Hamburg, 1973)
Anthology and magazine publication in Spanish, French, Latvian, Hungarian, German, Italian, Swedish,
Turkish, Greek, Albanian, and Ukrainian

Literary Works in Anthologies (partial listing)
The Young American Poets (Follett, 1968), ed. Paul Carroll
The World Anthology (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969), ed. Anne Waldman
Air Earth Fire & Wat'er (Coward-McCann, 1971), ed. Frances McCullough
Another World (Bobbs-Merrill, 1971), ed. Anne Waldman
Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin, 1972), ed. Donald Hall
Bad Moon Rising (Doubleday, 1973), ed. Thomas M. Disch
British and American Surrealist Poetry (Penguin, 1978), ed. Edward Germain
Claims for Poetry (University of Michigan, 1982), ed. Donald Hall
The World Treasury of Children's Literature (Little, Brown and Co., 1985), ed. Chfton Fadiman
Up Late: American Poetry Since 1940 (4 Walls 8 Windows, 1987), ed. Andrei Codrescu
The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry (Norton, 1994), ed. Paul Hoover
A New Geography of Poets (Univ. of Arkansas, 1993), ed. Edward Field

Literary Works in Periodicals

The New Yorker, Poetry, The Village Voice, Paris Review, Sulfi4r, Ms, Artnews, Craft Horizons, Camera Arts,
Art & Literature, C, Boulevard, Scripsi, and more than 200 others

Literary Books Edited

An Anthology of New York Poets (Random House, 1970), with David Shapiro
The Mole Word Catalogue 2 (McGraw-Hill, 1976), with Bill Zavatsky
The Complete Poems of Edwin Denby (Random House, 1986)

Poetry Readings (partial listing)

Guggenheim Museum (Academy of American Poets), Whitney Museum, Museum of Modem Art, St. Mark's Poetry Project, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, University of Indiana, University of Minnesota, Chicago University, UCLA, USC, Swarthmore, Brooklyn College, Baltimore School of Fine Arts, Pratt, Northeastern, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Essex University (England), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), University of Pennsylvania, Edinburgh Arts Festival, San Francisco State University Poetry Center, Pomona, Naropa Institute, Library of Congress, Barnard, University of Vermont, University of Cahfornia-San Diego, San Diego State, Beyond Baroque, Southampton College, Bard College, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), One World Poetry Festival (Amsterdam), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Detroit Institute of Art, Centre Culturel Americain (Paris), Rice Institute, 80 Langton Street, Museum of Contemporary Art (Boston).

Teaching Experience

Various programs since 1969, including Poetry-in-the-Schools workshops for students, teacher training (all levels), and lectures, in New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Virginia, Michigan, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Oklahoma. Recently, teaching imaginative writing at Columbia University-

Awards and Fellowships

Boar's Head Poetry Award, Columbia University, 1964
George E. Woodbery Poetry Prize, Columbia University, 1964
Gotham Bookinart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize, 1964
Poets Foundation, 1964 and 1969
Fulbright, 1965
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1966 and 1971
Translation Center grant, 1976
National Endowment for the Arts, 1976
Creative Artists Public Service, New York, 1982
National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, 1983
Guggenheim, Poetry, 1986
New York State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship, 1989
Translation Center.Award, 1993
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts grant

Currently

Director of Publications, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 5 Union Square West, New York, NY 10003 (212/691-6590)