Ron Padgett

And we walked in the room and the room erupted at Kenneth's arrival.

And they said, oh, by the way, kids, I brought my friend Ron Padgett with me here.

He's a poet, too.

I mean, he just absolutely electrified the room, and it really took me aback, because I thought, kids, they're going to hate poetry, you know? There was very little evidence of any sort of joyous experience with poetry among children in the schools at that time.