6:30 p.m.

Ron Padgett is a celebrated poet, translator, and memoirist. With Ted Berrigan and others, Padgett reinvented the New York School of Poetry in the mid-1960s. He has published over fourteen books, including Great Balls of Fire and is regarded as the definitive translator of Blaise Cendrars and Apollinaire. 

Moderated by David Lehman, poetry coordinator, The School of Writing, The New School for Public Engagement.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510

Admission:
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