Monday morning and rain. My foot tapping like it expects something. Besides more rain. A new airport letter poem, maybe. I have some thoughts for one, this time for Memphis. Cities on a river. Al Green. I can't get next to you.
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I'm tough on myself in a lot of ways, probably too tough, though I never realize it. I often feel badly towards readings I give, but I gave one Friday that felt like a good one, a good experience, which was nice.
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Someone asked me if I'd ever watched video of me reading. No! God forbid. Too much self-awareness is just that, too much.
Audio is bad enough.
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.
4 comments:
A friend of mine recorded my thesis reading on video. I never could watch the thing all the way through. I watched a little bit of it and shut the thing off from embarassment.
Glad you had a good reading. You know it when it happens.
Since I'm traveling very little these days, maybe I'll write a poem for each room of my house. "Kitchen, My Kitchen" presents itself to me, presently.
Happy travels!
Hey, Paul.
If you need to do research for your Memphis poem, then this Memphis resident would be happy to host you. Hope you're great.
Best,
Betsy
Hope everything went well...
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