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For the film ‘Paterson,’ poet Ron Padgett wrote four original poems

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Weekly Poem: Ron Padgett reads ‘Thinking about the Moon’

Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator and member of the New York School. His latest book “Collected Poems” is a compilation of his works from 1960-2004 including 11 previous publications and dozens of uncollected poems. Padgett…

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Weekly Poem: Ron Padgett reads ‘Spots’

Spots And so once again Father Time and said to Mother Nature, "Mother, put a few more of those brown spots on him, please," and so she did, dutifully and without malice she placed them here and there among the…

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