Paul Guest

Paul Guest was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.{{cn|date=February 2024}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_762_Poet.mp3/view |title=Paul Guest's Body of Poetry — the Story from American Public Media |accessdate=2009-08-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821191927/http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_762_Poet.mp3/view |archivedate=2009-08-21 }} He is a quadriplegic.

He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from Southern Illinois University with an M.F.A. in 1999.{{Cite web|url=http://www.versedaily.org/aboutpaulguest2.shtml|title=Verse Daily: Paul Guest|website=www.versedaily.org|access-date=2016-04-13}}{{Cite web|url=http://mfacarbondale.blogspot.com/2011/04/mfa-graduate-paul-guest-awarded.html|title=Bulletin Board: MFA Carbondale: MFA Graduate Paul Guest Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship!!|date=2011-04-07|website=Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale|access-date=2016-04-13}}

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.

• 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/17031-paul-guest |title=Paul Guest - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |accessdate=2011-05-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920181450/http://www.gf.org/fellows/17031-paul-guest |archivedate=2012-09-20 }}
• 2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series
• 2007 Whiting Award
• 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
• 2002 New Issues Press Poetry Prize

• {{cite book| title=Because Everything Is Terrible| publisher=Diode Editions| year=2018| isbn=978-1939728234 }}
• {{cite book| title=My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge| publisher=Ecco| year=2008| isbn=978-0-06-168516-3| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/myindexofslightl0000gues}}
• {{cite book| title=Notes For My Body Double| publisher=University of Nebraska Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-8032-6035-1 }}
• {{cite book| title=Exit Interview: Poems| publisher=New Michigan Press| year=2006| isbn=978-0-9762092-7-0 }}
• {{cite book| title=The Resurrection of the body and the Ruin of the World| publisher=New Issues, Western Michigan University| year=2003| isbn=978-1-930974-27-2 }}

• {{cite book| title=One More Theory About Happiness| url=https://archive.org/details/onemoretheoryabo00gues| url-access=registration| year=2010| publisher=Ecco | isbn=9780061685170}}

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• [http://paulguest.blogspot.com/ "Author's blog"]
• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125997807 "Character and Voice: Picks for National Poetry Month"]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121102858/http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/paul_guest/questions_for_godzilla.shtml "Paul Guest", Fishouse]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090727014445/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=1668 "An interview with poet Paul Guest", Poetry Foundation]
• [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/paul-guest#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
• [http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/05/04/shelf-life-one-more-theory-about-happiness-by-paul-guest/ One More Theory About Happiness review, Creative Loafing Atlanta]

Online Poems

• {{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302660_pf.html| title=User's Guide to Physical Debilitation; The Lives of the Optimists| newspaper=The Washington Post| editor=Mary Karr| date=October 26, 2008 }}
• [http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/featuredguest.html "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]
• [http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue07/html/poets/paul_guest.htm#A "Apologia", Octopus, Issue 7]
• [http://www.diodepoetry.com/v1n2/content/guest_p.html "At Night, In November, Trying Not To Think Of Asphodel," "Austria," Bordering On The Tragic," "Oblivion: Letter Home, "Oblivion: Letter Home"]
• [http://www.thediagram.com/3_5/guest.html "DONALD DUCK'S LAMENT", Diagram 3.5]
• [http://www.slate.com/id/2064753/ "Landscape With Décolletage", Slate, May 7, 2002]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090704111214/http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/STORIES/67Authors/GuestWeb.pdf "Plenitude", Crazyhorse, Number 67]
• [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16443 "On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form"]

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