Ron Padgett + Susie Timmons November 14, 2007

Ron Padgett will be reading from his new collection of poems, How to Be Perfect just published by Coffee House Press. Other books of his include You Never Know (poems), If I Were You (collaborative works), and two memoirs, Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers and Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. Next year Black Widow Books will issue Padgett and Bill Zavatsky’s translation of Valery Larbaud’s Poems of A. O. Barnabooth. Susie Timmons lives in Brooklyn. Her work has been published in recent issues of Court Green, Columbia Review and other little magazines, and appears in the anthology Up is Up and So is Down. Her book Locked From the Outside (winner of the inaugural Ted Berrigan Award) is readily available. She currently has several manuscripts nearing completion.

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