Even after such tremendously bad weather late Friday night and early Saturday, the morning came bright and blue and cool, scrubbed new. The dogwood petals were scattered all over the ground. A beautiful day, the clouds piled high up in the sky.
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Some of the break-up stories were almost amusingly horrifying. Animal death in two of them. Egads, people. Is it any wonder we're writers?
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I'm selling some things on Ebay for my dad, which means fielding several phone calls a day: has anything sold yet? What's the bid up to? Etc. Heaven help me.
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Jeffrey Bahr is up to bat at Verse Daily with "Diaspora."
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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