Ronald Johnson (poet)
for other people named Ronald Johnson, see Ron Johnson (disambiguation)
Ronald Johnson (November 5, 1935 – March 4, 1998) was an American poet. He was born in Ashland, Kansas, graduated from Columbia University and lived in New York in the late fifties, wandered around Appalachia and Britain for a number of years, then settled in San Francisco for the next twenty-five years before returning to Kansas, where he died.
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