Making It Up

by Ron Padgett, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Koch

An evening of spontaneous poetry collaborations by Koch and Ginsberg 1979 at the St. Mark's Poetry Project. The format of the evening was constructed by Padgett, who also moderated the evening.

35 pages, paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Ron Padgett is a poet and translator whose Collected Poems won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2014 Los Angeles Times Prize for the best poetry book. Padgett has translated the poetry of Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Valery Larbaud, and Blaise Cendrars.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The results, verbatim, of a poetry battle at St Andrews Church bewteen AG and Kenneth Koch, with Ron Padgett officiating. Hilarious, brilliant, inspiring, ridiculous.