I ordered my copy of Matt Guenette's A Hush of Something Endless and you should too. Matt and I started our MFA's at SIU the same year, under the cruel tutelage of Rodney Jones. And look at what a handsome boy he's turned into. He didn't ask but were I to contribute a blurb to his collection it would be one word:
"Bitter."
Matt knows why.
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Setting the way back machine one notch further back on the dial, go welcome Karri Paul to blogger. She's been blogging over in the gated community of MySpace and I loved everything she wrote so much I suggested she take it public. I'm glad she did. Nothing much there now besides a little introductory note but whatever follows will be gold.
Karri and I were in our undergrad poetry workshops. She's a great poet but also a great painter and is in Austin working on her MFA in painting.
So say hey.
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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