Well, not really. But I was surprised last night, showing up at the reading. I didn't quite know what to expect. In my mind, I was expecting some small group of people. Not an audience of 40 or so people. And there were about six of us reading, round robin style. Interesting group. I was flat, I think, kind of taken aback; it didn't seem the crowd was my target audience. I read three poems from my book: "On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form," "The Flesh," and "Small Wonder."
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I'm listening to Steve Martin's album Let's Get Small. Genius stuff.
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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Thanks, R. And thanks, esp., Jill.
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