All the planning for AWP is in full swing: the invites are streaming in, the meet-ups for drinks, and so on. I haven't been since Vancouver, two years, and I'm starting to get excited. With recent frenzies and heartbreaks, I haven't had much capacity for enthusiasm. But I'm coming out of that now, thankfully.
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The coming of spring helps. Yesterday it was 70 here, gorgeous, and it's funny how quickly you become adjusted: today it'll be 60 and I'm already catching myself grousing a bit about those 10 degrees.
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Is anyone planning on hitting this place? If you're in Atlanta, you have to. I'm not sure why that is, but you do.
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 just checked on google: The Varsity Downtown is 1.2 miles from the Hilton.
Cool.
If you've never been, it's an experience. Cool is the wall with all the signed pictures of famous people who've ate there.
Should we bring author's photos?;)
The food is great there.
I can tell you why --the fooood.
Fried peach pie . . .
Hey, Paul. You may have heard this already, but the fabulous Allison Joseph wanted me to tell any SIU alums I could think of about the reception for all of us in the Jefferson Room, on Friday, at 7. This is Chad Parmenter, by the way. (Otherwise, this message would have had that creepy, voice-of-Saluki-past disembodiment.)
Heck yeah! I'm going to get one of their paper hats and I'm going to wear it for the entire conference.
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