A phone interview today. They're always mildly disorienting, the disembodied quality, the echo of the speaker phone.
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On the road next week to an undisclosed location. It's a secret. Shh.
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- 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 HATE phone interviews. You say something and hear the silence . . . the echo of your own voice . . . the static. For all you know they're covering their mouths and stiffling hysterical laughter.
G'luck man.
Several years ago I had a phone interview for a one-year teaching fellowship. The only problem was that they never told me they were going to interview me by phone, so they called me at 8 am and asked me serious interview questions. The phone woke me up, so I wasn't in much of a proper state of mind to answer questions like "how would you teach poetry to students who have mostly written fiction?" (As a matter of fact, I pretty much have no understanding of written text until noon.) Needless to say, I didn't ace the interview, and I was pretty pissed that they pulled this. Later I found out that they gave the fellowship to a person who was previously connected to the department. Though obviously I can't prove it, it's always been my feeling that someone who was pulling for their friend kind of sandbagged me with this very unprofessional surprise interview.
Just thought I'd share. GO RAVENS!!!
So, how did the phone interview go? Are you on your mysterious trip right now and there will be no more posts for a while? Are you a spy?
I interviewed Kelly Pickler today--she of American Idol fame. She was very sweet!
OK, miss you. Talk to you soon.
Luv,
Betsy
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