Big Cabin
Ron Padgett
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- It’s Ron! He’s CHP’s best known poet, and he’s only become more well-known since he penned poems for Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson.
- Ron remains in demand and is as energetic as ever—we can expect the book to be featured by NPR and other national media. KCRW's Bookworm remains eager to connect with Ron as well.
Contributor Bio
Ron Padgett grew up in Tulsa and has lived mostly in New York City since 1960. Among his many honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters poetry award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Padgett’s How Long was Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry and his Collected Poems won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the best poetry book of 2013. In addition to being a poet, he is also the translator of Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, and Blaise Cendrars. His own work has been translated into eighteen languages.
