Tulsa: Ron Padgett

Ron Padgett (born 1942) is a poet and editor whose artistic ascent began in his teenage years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, alongside Joe Brainard and Dick Gallup, he produced The White Dove Review, a vibrant art and culture magazine. Padgett and Brainard subsequently moved together to New York City, where Padgett studied at Columbia University under Kenneth Koch and connected with a range of Beat poets. He has taught poetry at various schools across the City, edited volumes such as Full Court Press and Teachers & Writers Magazine, and authored poetry collections including 2013’s Collected Poems, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He also wrote memoirs of Brainard and fellow Tulsa native Ted Berrigan.