Paul Guest | |
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Born | Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. |
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Education | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Southern Illinois University (MFA) |
Notable awards | Whiting Award (2007) |
Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.
Paul Guest was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[ citation needed ] When he was twelve, Guest broke the third and fourth vertebrae in his neck in a bicycle accident, bruising his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the neck down. [1] He is a quadriplegic.
He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from Southern Illinois University with an M.F.A. in 1999. [2] [3]
Guest's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Nation, The Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Harper's , The Paris Review , Tin House , The Kenyon Review , The Missouri Review , Slate and elsewhere. They are also published in collections as books.
Online Poems