Paul Guest
Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.
Paul Guest
- Name
- Paul Guest
- Birthplace
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Poet
- Education
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Southern Illinois University (MFA)
- Awards
- Whiting Award (2007) Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.
- Born
- 1900 · Chattanooga.
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Paul Guest • Birthplace — Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. • Occupation — * Poet • memoirist • Education — University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Southern Illinois University (MFA) • Awards — Whiting Award (2007) Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.
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Paul Guest is recorded as a poet and writer.
Early life and education
Early life and education
Paul Guest was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 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. He is a quadriplegic. He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from Southern Illinois University with an M.F.A. in 1999.
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Paul Guest was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Career
Career
Guest's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Nation, The Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Slate and elsewhere. They are also published in collections as books.
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Atlanta, Georgia. is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Memoir
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Poetry collections
• (forthcoming in 2028) * * * * *
Honors and awards
• 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry • 2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series • 2007 Whiting Award • 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry • 2002 New Issues Press Poetry Prize
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- 1.Paul Guest's Body of Poetry — the Story from American Public Media.
- 2.Verse Daily: Paul Guest. www.versedaily.org.
- 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.
- 4.Paul Guest - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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