Poet Ron Padgett
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 17, 1942, Ron Padgett began writing at the age of thirteen and started a little magazine in high school called The White Dove Review. Today, he serves on the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors.
Essay Beginnings by C. K. Williams Poetry didn't find me, in the cradle or anywhere near it: I found it. I realized at some point—very late, it's always seemed—that I needed it...