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Dick Gallup
Dick Gallup (July 3, 1941 – January 27, 2021) was an American poet associated with the New York School. Early life and education Richard "Dick" John Gallup was born on July 3, 1941, in Greenfield, Massachusetts. In late 1949, the Gallup family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying a house across the street from the home of future poet Ron Padgett. The two boys became friends, and in 1958, while in high school, they founded (with artist and writer Joe Brainard, also a classmate) a small literary magazine, ''The White Dove Review'', which published Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), and Robert Creeley, as well as a new friend in Tulsa, the poet Ted Berrigan. In the early 1960s, Padgett, Brainard, and Berrigan moved from Tulsa to New York City while Gallup attended Tulane University. After two years at Tulane, he transferred to Columbia’s School of General Studies, where he received a BA, studying under the poet Kenneth Koch. In 1964, Gallup married Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. ''Great Balls of Fire'', Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Early life and education Padgett’s father was a bootlegger in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He influenced many of Padgett's works, particularly in the writer's taste for independence and a willingness to deviate from rules, even his own. This would later be described as a stubborn streak of boyishness, allowing a wry innocence in his poetry. Padgett started writing poetry at the age of 13. In an interview, the poet said that he was inspired to write when a girl he had a big crush on did not return his affection. In high school, Padgett became interested in visual arts while continuing to write poetry. He befriended Joe Brainard, the visual artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |