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Paul Legault (/ləˈɡoʊ/ lə-GOH; born June 25, 1985) is a Canadian-American poet.

Life

Legault was born in Ottawa, 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.

From 2013 to 2015, he lived in St. Louis, Missouri,[5] serving as a writer-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he lives in New York City.

Bibliography

Collections

Edited anthology

  • The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat/Telephone, 2012). OCLC 785870535

References

  1. ^ "Omnidawn". Omnidawn. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  2. ^ "Taking a Poetic Path > News > USC College". College.usc.edu. Archived from the original on February 26, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  3. ^ "About Telephone Journal". Telephonejournal.org. Archived from the original on April 10, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  4. ^ "Past". Denverquarterly.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  5. ^ "Reading Series presents: Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Paul Legault — The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative". Thebridgepai.com. November 16, 2010. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Legault