RON PADGETT was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. He re-

ceived his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964, tile same year

he won the Gotham Book Mart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize. He

spent 1965-1966 in Paris on a Fulbright. Since 1969 he has

worked with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and

numerous Poets in the Schools programs. In 1977-1978

he worked as Writer in the Community in. Lancaster. Sou+h----

Carolina. ,~,

~ His publications include Toulours l amour; also published

by SUN, Great Balls of Fire, Tulsa Kid, Bean Spasms (with Ted

Berrigan and Joe Brainard), The Adventures of Mr and Mrs lira

and Ron (with Jim Dine), Antlers in the Treetops ~with Tom

Veitch), An Anthology of New York Poets (with David Shapiro),

and The Whole Word Catalogue 2 (with Bill Zavatsky), as well

~as book translations of Apollinaire, Duchamp, Cendrars and

Larbaud.

Currently he directs the Poetry Project at St. Mark s Church

In-.the-Bowery. New York is home base for him. his wife and

son.