Associated with the second generation of the New York School, Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and studied with Kenneth Koch at Columbia University. His more than twenty collections include Great Balls of Fire (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969), How Long (Coffee House Press, 2011), a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Collected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Seven of his poems appear in Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film Paterson.
