Background
Androla was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania to a family of mixed Syrian and Italian ancestry.
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Ron Androla
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In the early 1970s, Androla attended Point Park College and later Franconia College, where he studied under Robert Grenier and came under the influence of Language poets whom he emulated at the time.
Career
He has been published extensively in the American small press scene. However, he regards himself as part of a tradition of underground American poetry that has largely rejected academic context. He considers his entry into the labor force as the true inception of his poetic vocation.
Foreign over thirty years, he worked in a factory as a pressure press operator.
The faces and personas of coworkers often feature in his poetry, which sketches the minutiae of working-class existence in the United States in a spontaneous and sparse style.
