Paul Guest

Paul Guest (born in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American poet and memoirist.

For the Australian Olympic rower, see Paul Guest (rower).

Biography

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] He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

His poems appear in Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Slate and elsewhere.

Honors and awards

Published works

Full-Length 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.

a Memoir

References
  1. "Paul Guest's Body of Poetry — the Story from American Public Media". Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  2. "Verse Daily: Paul Guest". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  3. "Bulletin Board: MFA Carbondale: MFA Graduate Paul Guest Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship!!". Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  4. "Paul Guest - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved 2011-05-12.

Online Poems

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