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Paul Guest

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Paul Guest
BornChattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation
  • 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

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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

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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

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Published works

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Poetry collections

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "Paul Guest's Body of Poetry — the Story from American Public Media". Archived from the original on August 21, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  2. ^ "Verse Daily: Paul Guest". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Paul Guest - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
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Online Poems