In answer to C. Dale's question below, (is that how to address you? C.? Dale? C. Dale?) on whether I'll be at AWP this year: I just don't know. I've planned on going since last year, saving money for it, but the national/state economies being what they are, Tennessee's budgetary crises in particular, there's precious little job security in my current position. I probably won't find out until early summer whether there'll be funding for me. Rent begins to look very attractive at that point. I've paid up for the next few months with that in mind.
All that said, I'd love to go. I'm even supposed to read for Crazyhorse's anniversary reading. Rick was nudging me towards going today.
I need a patron! Or a windfall.
Advice? Suggestions?
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Paul, I have been called C. Dale or Dale since I was in high school. So, use either one. People seem to choose one or the other. A lot of writers use C. Dale, but I answer to both.
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