Paul Guest

Paul Guest
Paul Guest
Born	Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Poet; memoirist;
Education	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Southern Illinois University (MFA)
Notable awards	Whiting 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.

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.

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.

^ "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.

Online Poems