[Wgcp-whc] Poetry Reading with Ron Padgett Thursday, April 4th

[Richard Deming]

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>> Grad Poets Reading Series
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>> The final Grad Poets reading of the year will take place this Thursday, April 4th at 7:00 pm in LC 211 (please note the change from our usual room), when we will be very privileged to host Ron Padgett. He'll be joined at the mic by our own Kim Andrews and Jason Labbe. More information is included below.
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>> Poetry Reading with Ron Padgett
>> Thursday, April 4th
>> 7:00 pm
>> Linsly-Chittenden, Room 211
>> 63 High St., New Haven CT
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>> Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. He began writing at the age of 13 and started a little magazine in high school called The White Dove Review with friends Dick Gallup and Joe Brainard. In its five issues, the magazine published Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka), Ted Berrigan, and others. In 1960, he moved to New York, where he attended Columbia College and studied with Kenneth Koch and Lionel Trilling. Padgett later spent a year in Paris on a Fulbright fellowship where he studied French literature. His first collection of poems, Bean Spasms, written with Ted Berrigan, was published in 1967. Since then he has published many books of poetry, including How Long (Coffee House Press, 2011), How to Be Perfect (2007), You Never Know (2002), Poems I Guess I Wrote (2001), New & Selected Poems (1995), The Big Something (1990),Triangles in the Afternoon (1979), and Great Balls of Fire (1969). He has also published a volume of selected prose titled Blood Work (1993), as well as translations of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems (1992), Pierre Cabanne'sDialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1971), and Guillaume Apollinaire's The Poet Assassinated (1968). For his translations, Padgett has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Columbia University's Translation Center. For twenty years Padgett was the publications director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2008. He lives in New York City.
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>> Books will be available at the reading for $15/$30 (cash or check only). We have copies of his two most recent volumes as well as Bean Spasms, his collaboration with Berrigan and a landmark of experimental poetry.
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>> For more information please contact Justin Sider (justin.sider at yale.edu) or see our event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/142380922602718/.
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>> This event is sponsored in collaboration with the Yale Collection in American Literature and supported by the Yale Review and the Dean's Fund.

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