Paul Legault
| Paul Legault | |
|---|---|
 line drawing of Paul Legault | |
| Born |
June 25, 1985 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Education |
University of Virginia (MFA) University of Southern California (BFA) |
| Occupation | Writer, translator, publisher |
Paul Legault (p-O-l LUH-goh; born June 25, 1985) is a Canadian American poet.
Life
Legault was born in Ontario and raised in Tennessee.[1] He graduated from the University of Southern California, where he obtained a BFA in screenwriting and the University of Virginia, where he earned an MFA in creative writing.[2]
He is a co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books.[3] Since 2010, his output has taken on characteristics similar to Kenneth Koch works such as One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays, with absurdist miniature dialogues between animate, inanimate, or abstract characters. In 2012, he released terse English-to-English translations of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
His writing has been published in The Awl, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly,[4] Field, The Literati Quarterly,Pleiades and other journals.
He lives in St. Louis, Missouri,[5] and serves as a writer-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis.
Works
- The Emily Dickinson Reader, Vol. 1. Try & Make Press. April 2009.
- The Madeleine Poems. Omnidawn Publishing. November 2010. ISBN 978-1-890650-48-3.
- The Other Poems. Fence Books. 2011. ISBN 1-934200-50-6.
- The Emily Dickinson Reader. McSweeney's. 2012. ISBN 1-936365-98-7.
Related Authors
- Ben Fama
- Christian Hawkey
- Dorothea Lasky
- Lonely Christopher
References
- ↑ "Omnidawn". Omnidawn. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Taking a Poetic Path > News > USC College". College.usc.edu. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ↑ "About Telephone Journal". Telephonejournal.org. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Past". Denverquarterly.com. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Reading Series presents: Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Paul Legault — The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative". Thebridgepai.com. November 16, 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
External links
- "Author's site"
- "An Interview with Paul Legault", BOMB, 15. Dec, 2010
- "Telephone"
- A video poem in InDigest