2021

• Talk on artistic collaborations in NYC in the 1960s (with Karin Roffman)

• So Say So
24 new poems, limited edition

• Conversation and reading for the Fernando Pessoa House, Lisbon (with Isabel Lucas)

• Conversation about Joe Brainard (with John Brainard)

2019

• To hear Ron reading 11 of his poems at the Haus für Poesie in Berlin last November, go to https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/sitting-down-somewhere-else-14578. Includes the German translations by Jan Roehnert.

• 9 April introduction to a reading by Chinese poet Yu Jian and a reading of translations of his poems, with Anne Waldman, at Torn Page, 435 West 22nd St, 2nd floor, NYC at 8 p.m.

2018

• 9 February reading and onstage interview, as part of the Ritratti di Poesia in Rome, at the Tempio di Adriano, Piazza di Pietra, sponsored by the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro.
 
• 2 April reading at Pace University, NYC.

• 10 April lecture at Poetry Society of America, NYC.

• 7 June two readings in Krakow, as part of the Milosz Festival.

• 14 June two readings in Macerata, Italy, as part of the Musicultura Festival. For the second one, at the amazing Sferisterio, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNgZfP3X3oM

• 16 June reading in Ancona as part of the Punta della Lingua Festival.

• 10 October group reading at celebrate joca seria press in New York City at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

• 7 November group reading to celebrate Bill Berkson’s Since When in New York City at the Poetry Project.

• 10 November reading and talk in Hitzacker (Germany) at the Poetry and Film Conference.

• 12 November reading in Berlin at the Haus für Poesie, followed by a screening of Paterson with Q&A.

• 15 November screening of Paterson with Q&A in Munich at the Bavarian Academy of the Arts.

• 16 November reading in Munich at the Lyrik Kabinet.

New Books in Translation

Die schönsten Streich Hölzer der Welt, translated into German by Jan Röhnert (Dietrich’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Mainz, Germany)
Ho sognato di essere me, translated into Italian by Damiano Abeni (italic pequod, Ancona, Italy)
Bezczynnosc Butow, translated into Polish by Andrzej Szuba (Institut Mikolowski, Mikolow, Poland)
Poemas Escolhidos, translated into Portuguese by Rosalina Marshall (Assírio & Alvim, Porto, Portugal, 2018)
Cómo ser perfecto, translated into Spanish by Patricio Grinberg and Aníbal Cristobo (Kriller71, Barcelona, Spain, 2018, and Zindo & Gafuri, Buenos Aires, 2018)

Frost Medal

Ron has been awarded the Poetry Society of America’s 2018 Frost Medal for lifetime achievement. Info: www.poetrysociety.org

2017

Motor Maids across the Continent, a new novella by Ron Padgett in which an intrepid group of high school girls set off on a cross-country motorcar trip a few years before World War One and have many interesting adventures, including encounters with Blaise Cendrars. Published by The Song Cave.

To hear a half-hour conversation about Motor Maids across the Continent between R.P. and Michael Silverblatt (the host of the Bookworm radio program), click here.

RP Reads FOH
The Library of Congress has posted Ron’s reading of Frank O’Hara’s poem “A Step Away from Them,” along with commentary by Ron, at http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetry-of-america/american-identity/ronpadgettt-frankohara.html.

A Photographer’s Take
Paris-based Romanian photographer Dan Hayon has matched 99 of his photographs with the 99 lines of Ron’s poem “How to Be Perfect.” See this at: https://hayon.viewbook.com/album/how-to-be-perfect#1

Now available on Vimeo from Citizen Films:

a collection of short videos featuring Kenward Elmslie and his friends Lucia Berlin, Barbara Guest, Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett, Diane di Prima, Maxine Chernoff, as well as the collaborators on his opera The Seagull.

https://vimeo.com/channels/luciaberlin

https://vimeo.com/channels/barbaraguest

https://vimeo.com/channels/creatingtheseagull

https://vimeo.com/channels/billberkson

https://vimeo.com/channels/joebrainard

https://vimeo.com/channels/ronpadgett

https://vimeo.com/channels/dianediprima

https://vimeo.com/channels/kenwardelmslie

https://vimeo.com/channels/maxinechernoff

Ron Padgett and Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson

Jim Jarmusch and Ron Padgett on PBS’s NewsHour

Ron Padgett in the New York Times

Ron Padgett on Bookworm

Ron Padgett in Frankfurt newspaper

Ron Padgett with Jim Jarmusch and Adam Driver

2016

How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide, with pictures by Jason Novak, from Coffee House Press.

• Ron Padgett's translation of Apollinaire's selected poems, Zone, received the 2016 Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets.

• January 27: Frank Lima group reading at The Poetry Project

• February 24: Reading of Frances Waldman’s letters at The Poetry Project

• April 13: Reading of Apollinaire translations at The Poetry Project

• April 21: Reading at the Morgan Library and Museum

• November 9: Reading at the Lisbon Film Festival to celebrate Jim Jarmusch's new film, Paterson.

2015

Alone and Not Alone, new poems, from Coffee House Press in the spring of 2015.

Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Padgett, from New York Review Books in the fall of 2015.

Do the Math, a new collaborative book with Trevor Winkfield, from Granary Books.

• February 11: Edwin Denby group reading at the Poetry Project, NYC, 8 p.m.

• February 12: Panel on the NY School Painters & Poets, at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, NYC, 6:30 p.m.

• February 25: Reading at Wesleyan University, Russell House, Middletown, CT, 8 p.m.

• March 12: Reading in the New Salon series, at NYU’s Vernon House, West 10th St., NYC, with an interview by Alice Quinn, 7 p.m.

• March 19: Receiving the Robert Creeley Award and reading at Acton/Boxborough High School, 36 Charter Rd., Acton, MA, 7:30 p.m.

• April 1: Reading at Syracuse University, 5:30 p.m

• April 21: Reading at the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, NYC, 6:30 p.m.

• May 7: Reading and book signing at St. Mark’s Bookshop, 136 East Third St., NYC, 7 p.m.

• July 25: Reading at the Bookstock Literary Festival, in Woodstock, VT

• September: Reading and lecture in Kunming, China

2014

• Ron’s Collected Poems received the 2014 LA Times Prize for Best Poetry Book and the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America.

• January 28: Reverdy group reading at McNally Jackson, NYC

• March 8: Reading at Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, Huntington Village, NY

• April 1: Reading in Tulsa, OK

• April 3: Reading at Minneapolis Public Library

• April 17: Reading at SUNY Farmingdale

• April 21: Reading at Pace University, NYC, 6-8 p.m.

• July 3: Reading at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT

• July 6: Reading in Brownington Village VT

• December 5: Reading and panel in Bratislava, Slovakia

• Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the Ron Padgett Archive (mid-1950s-ca. 2000). Below is a description of the archive by Steve Clay of Granary Books:

The Ron Padgett Archive

Ninety linear feet. Correspondence (over 20,000 pages), manuscripts (over 50,000 pages), "bokes" (about 1,000 pages), notebooks, diaries, journals, White Dove Review (complete file), Full Court Press (complete file), and miscellaneous.

1) Correspondence
There are more than 20,000 items from hundreds of correspondents,
along with copies of a substantial portion of Padgett's outgoing mail.
Correspondents include Joe Brainard, Ted Berrigan, Dick Gallup,
James Schuyler, Tom Veitch, Alice Notley, Clark Coolidge, Bill
Berkson, Tom Clark, Kenward Elmslie, Anne Waldman, Michael
Brownstein, Trevor Winkfield, Kenneth Koch, Tom Raworth, Harry
Mathews, Larry Fagin, Lewis Warsh, Rudy Burckhardt, Ed Sanders,
Glen Baxter, Susan Howe, Clayton Eshleman, Bernadette Mayer, Paul
Auster, George Schneeman, John Ashbery, Alex Katz, Tony Towle,
Allen Ginsberg, Lyn Hejinian, Ann Lauterbach, Kathleen Fraser,
Maureen Owen, Aram Saroyan, Charles Reznikoff, Marcel
Duchamp, LeRoi Jones, Jim Dine, and Jack Kerouac, to name a few.
Padgett's correspondence is extraordinarily rich and deep with
innumerable highlights. Here are a few outstanding examples:

Joe Brainard: Complete file of correspondence between Ron and
Pat Padgett and Joe Brainard from 1962-1993. 785 pp. of letters plus
208 postcards. Many letters contain small sketches, collage, and/or
mss. After Brainard's death in 1994, the letters he received from
Ron and Pat Padgett were returned to them, making this a complete
record. The Padgetts were two of Brainard's most intimate friends for
more than 40 years. Ron Padgett is the artistic and literary executor of the Estate of Joe Brainard. This correspondence is a substantial source of research material for the forthcoming Michael Davis biography of Joe Brainard and is likely to yield further scholarly projects and publications.

Ted Berrigan: Complete file of correspondence between Ron and
Pat Padgett and Ted (and sometimes Sandy) Berrigan. The correspondence covers the period from 1959-1983. There are about 430 pp. of letters and 86 postcards. Letters from Ron and Pat Padgett written to Ted Berrigan are included, making this as complete a record as possible of one of the most significant literary friendships for both poets.
Also included in the Berrigan file is the ms. for Bean Spasms by Berrigan
and Padgett (199 pp.) and the complete ms. for the "Jack Kerouac Interview" (89 pp.) conducted by Berrigan for the Paris Review. There are another 160 pp. of Berrigan mss., ranging from poems and drawings to handmade bokes plus Ron's Book (1968), a spectacular handmade bound collection (228 pp.) of mss., drawings, and collages by Berrigan.

James Schuyler: 54 letters (105 pp.) and 46 postcards sent to the
Padgetts 1966-1988. The letters include various enclosures, collage
materials, and manuscripts.
Also included in the archive is the correspondence from Schuyler to Joe
Brainard 1966-1990. The original letters and postcards are accompanied by a typescript, prepared by Trevor Winkfield, toward a projected publication of the Schuyler / Brainard correspondence.
Included are 11 postcards and 14 greeting cards (28 typescript pages);
60 letters (175 typescript pages); approximately 55 postcards that were
not transcribed.

There are fascinating correspondence files (in some cases both sides of
the correspondence are included) with Dick Gallup, Tom Veitch, Tom
Clark, Clark Coolidge, Alice Notley, Bill Berkson, and Kenward
Elmslie.

2) Manuscripts
The archive includes over 50,000 pages of manuscript and typescript
by Ron Padgett (from juvenilia to the year 2000) and by others. Most
of Padgett's books of poetry, prose, and translation are represented
and much more.

3) Bokes
The word "boke" was coined by RP to describe the "little unique
editions" that Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, and he made for each other, beginning in the 1960s. The category "Bokes" in the archive comprises dozens of unique handmade works (with a total of nearly 1,000 pages of
manuscript material) by Tom Clark, Anne Waldman, Bill Berkson,
George Schneeman, Michael Brownstein, Larry Fagin, Tom Veitch,
Aram Saroyan, Steve Carey, Lewis Warsh, and Ron Padgett, among
others.

4) Notebooks
In addition to several dozen travel diaries, project notebooks, and
personal journals, the archive includes RP's appointment books for the
years 1971-2002.

5) White Dove Review
Included is the complete file for the White Dove Review edited by
Padgett while he was a high school student in Tulsa. The associate
editor was Dick Gallup and one of the art editors was Joe Brainard.
The WDR file includes all extant correspondence and manuscripts
including those from Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, e.e. cummings,
Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones, David Meltzer, Ron Lowinsohn and
others. This is an excellent document of the magazine that helped
launch RP's career while inadvertently providing an editorial model
for most of the Second Generation New York School little magazines
and presses.

6) Full Court Press
Full Court Press (1974-1989) was founded, edited, and published by Ron Padgett, Joan Simon, and Anne Waldman. The archive includes a
complete file comprising all extant correspondence, manuscripts,
proofs, production materials, promotion files, and business records.
Writers published by Full Court include Joe Brainard, William
Burroughs, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, John Godfrey,
Frank O'Hara, Keith Cohen, Phillipe Soupault (William Carlos Williams, translator), and Tom Veitch.

7) Miscellaneous
The section includes childhood documents (early writings and
drawings, etc.), academic records, teaching materials, memorabilia,
announcements, research materials, publications, and so forth.

Other Events

• The complete text of Antlers in the Treetops, the 1970 collaborative novel by Ron Padgett and Tom Veitch, is now online.

• Ron is the featured interviewee on a podcast on the dramatic "assassination" of Kenneth Koch during the latter's reading at the Poetry Project in the late 1960s:
http://poetryfoundation.org/audio/PoetryFoundation.orgPodcast.04.28.06.mp3.

• Go to:www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Padgett.html to hear Ron read selections from You Never Know and Oklahoma Tough.