Numbers.
7: the crazy number of poems accepted by the New Orleans Review for an upcoming feature. Thank you, thank you.
75,000: the approximate number of words composed by freshmen wordsmiths I'll be consigned to grading over the break. Jesus in Heaven.
20: the approximate number of minutes added to the Planet Terror dvd, rendering a fun, virtuoso recreation of cheese into still fun but nearly exhausting cheese.
3: the number of pizzas made for said viewing of Planet Terror by Drs. Davidson, Fraser, and Masters this past Friday night.
0: number of viewings of Yor, the Hunter from the Future because I couldn't find a vcr. Hence the Planet Terror screening. Gwen and especially Margaret, I'll make it up.
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I was asked last week to read next year in the Prout Chapel Reading Series at Bowling Green State University. Which is super exciting. It's fun to go off, meet new people, get excited about poetry as a, well, forgive the term, community. So if you'd ever like me to show up and read and sleep in a hotel with free HBO, please ask. I'm all about it.
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Especially the free HBO. Which is awesome.
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.
9 comments:
I think my vcr made it from Houston (the horror gems, you know) --
Yor, Yor..he's a man...he's a man. (Mike Doughty)
Paul,
I'm looking forward to getting (both) your books.
Good Luck with all.
It figures that BGSU brings you in two years AFTER I've already graduated. Oh well. The Prout series is always packed. You'll have a great audience!
Congrats Paul. Have a good T-Giving. (BTW: Did you get my phone message about the Whiting?)
Take care, brother.
Phone message? No! Crap.`
What a shame. I have a VCR and no Yor.
Curse this cruel world.
Wait... there are many sentinals...
Yor!!! It is the creature of the night!
If my Christmas wishes were to come true, I would glide to work on a bat-shaped kite everyday of my life.
My second Christmas wish would be the ability to spell 'sentinels' correctly...
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