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

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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