Thanks to the awesome Cornshake (I can't recall how secret her identity is supposed to be anymore) for teaching my humble little volume of verse in her intermediate creative writing class.
Jonathan Johnson has used it a couple of times in his workshops at Eastern Washington University and he does something fun: he sets up a speakerphone in the classroom and they call whoever they're reading and have a Q&A session. Both times I've really enjoyed it.
Last year, in fact, Wendy Wisner and her husband Danny were visiting with me when they were going to call. We had dinner downtown at Thai Smile and walked back in the warm May evening.
I guess I was excited to have them staying with me, so I was just on when Jonathan called. Really funny that night. I had us all laughing. Good times.
Anyway, thanks again, sort of secret identity lady.
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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I can't wait to talk about your book! But yeah, I'm not trying to be that *secret,* per se (i mean i do post pictures of myself and the dog for crying out loud) but i was just trying to foil the Googlers and my students out there who don't need to know about my mundane daily exploits. As long as you don't use my first and last name together, I'm all good. :)
signed, *aimee*
No first name/last name of yours shall here ever be uttered in tandem, I swear it!
;)
It's really cool you're teaching the book.
That is so cool with the speakerphone thing. I would have LOVED to actually talk to a poet whose book I'd read, when I was an undergrad. (Not that I don't enjoy talking to poets now, of course, hehe.) Heck, it would have been pretty cool even to read a book that had been published in the last ten years.
It's a really cool idea. I have a blast doing it.
Oh Jonathan Johnson. Amusing fellow who tried once to woo me west with hockey. Nearly worked.
So I see your loveliness will be at AWP this week. Will you let a cute Southern girl by you a drink at some point?
Of course, Erin!
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