Ron Padgett and his portrait. Photo by Trevor Winkfield.

Ron Padgett’s How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry and his Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His new translation is Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (New York Review Books). For more information, go to www.ronpadgett.com.