New York Poet Ron Padgett Wows Audience at the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival

It was an exceptional moment to hear the renowned New York poet Ron Padgett read his poems to an eager audience at the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival. The poet gripped his audience with his clear dramatic delivery and streak of self-effacing humor. "Don't worry," he quipped to us, indicating the pages of his poetry on the podium. "I won't be reading too many!" Padgett's are the kind of poems that put one in a good mood: each is based in wonder about existence, which always returns to the concret...