Paul Guest

American poet and memoirist

Poet
memoirist

EducationUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Southern Illinois University (MFA)Notable awardsWhiting Award (2007)

Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.

Early life and education

Paul Guest was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.^{[citation needed]} When he was twelve, Guest broke the third and fourth vertebrae in his neck in a bicycle accident, bruising his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the neck down.^[1] He is a quadriplegic.

He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from Southern Illinois University with an M.F.A. in 1999.^[2]^[3]

Career

Guest's poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Slate and elsewhere. They are also published in collections as books.

Honors and awards

2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry^[4]
2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series
2007 Whiting Award
2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
2002 New Issues Press Poetry Prize

Published works

Poetry collections

Because Everything Is Terrible. Diode Editions. 2018. ISBN 978-1939728234.
My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge. Ecco. 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-168516-3.
Notes For My Body Double. University of Nebraska Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8032-6035-1.
Exit Interview: Poems. New Michigan Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-9762092-7-0.
The Resurrection of the body and the Ruin of the World. New Issues, Western Michigan University. 2003. ISBN 978-1-930974-27-2.

Memoir

One More Theory About Happiness. Ecco. 2010. ISBN 9780061685170.

References

^ "Paul Guest's Body of Poetry — the Story from American Public Media". Archived from the original on August 21, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
^ "Verse Daily: Paul Guest". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
^ "Bulletin Board: MFA Carbondale: MFA Graduate Paul Guest Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship!!". Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. April 7, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
^ "Paul Guest - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2011.

External links

"Author's blog"
"Character and Voice: Picks for National Poetry Month"
"Paul Guest", Fishouse
"An interview with poet Paul Guest", Poetry Foundation
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
One More Theory About Happiness review, Creative Loafing Atlanta

Online Poems

Mary Karr, ed. (October 26, 2008). "User's Guide to Physical Debilitation; The Lives of the Optimists". The Washington Post.
"The Intrusion of Ovid"; "LOVE IN THE SINGULAR"; "SMALL WONDER"; "THE ADVENT OF ZERO"; "PLUTO’S LOSS"; "CONSOLATION FOR VIRGIL"; "NOTES FOR MY BODY DOUBLE"; "Ode", The Adirondack Review
"Apologia", Octopus, Issue 7
"At Night, In November, Trying Not To Think Of Asphodel," "Austria," Bordering On The Tragic," "Oblivion: Letter Home, "Oblivion: Letter Home"
"DONALD DUCK'S LAMENT", Diagram 3.5
"Landscape With Décolletage", Slate, May 7, 2002
"Plenitude", Crazyhorse, Number 67
"On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form"