Presented in conjunction with the Poetry Center, SFSU, American poet Ron Padgett is one of the wittiest, most innovative poets currently writing. His poetry runs the gamut from popular humor to intellectual elegance and wild ricochets of the imagination.
SFAI 2002 Fall Lecture Series
November 20, 2002 7:30 PM
Presented in conjunction with the Poetry Center, SFSU, American poet Ron Padgett is one of the wittiest, most innovative poets currently writing. His poetry runs the gamut from popular humor to intellectual elegance and wild ricochets of the imagination.
He is the author of You Never Know (Coffeehouse Press, 2002), Poems I Guess I Wrote (2001), New & Selected Poems (1995), and other collections.
He has also published a volume of selected prose entitled Blood Work (1993), and translations of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems (1992), among others. For his translations Padgett has received an award from the American Academy of Art and Letters.
He was the editor-in-chief of World Poets, a three-volume reference book (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000). For twenty years Padgett was the publications director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He lives in New York City.
Admission: $6 general; $4 members, alumni, seniors, students, and disabled; SFAI students freeYork City.
Event Contact:
Peter Streckfus
(415)749-4507
SFAI Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA