| Paul Legault | |
|---|---|
 line drawing of Paul Legault | |
| Born | (1985-06-25) June 25, 1985 (age 39) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Education | University of Virginia (MFA) University of Southern California (BFA) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, translator, publisher |
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. 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.
He is a co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books. 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, Field, The Literati Quarterly, Pleiades and other journals.
From 2013 to 2015, he lived in St. Louis, Missouri, serving as a writer-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he lives in New York City.
Bibliography
Collections
- The Tower (Coach House Books, 2020). OCLC 1132264315
- Lunch Poems 2 (Spork, 2018). OCLC 1040263726
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2 (Fence, 2016). OCLC 908071998
- The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (McSweeney's, 2012). OCLC 773669701
- The Other Poems (Fence, 2011). OCLC 759935382
- The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010). OCLC 838378158
Edited anthology
References
- "Omnidawn". Omnidawn. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- "Taking a Poetic Path > News > USC College". College.usc.edu. Archived from the original on February 26, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- "About Telephone Journal". Telephonejournal.org. Archived from the original on April 10, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- "Past". Denverquarterly.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- "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
- "Author's site"
- "An Interview with Paul Legault", BOMB, 15. Dec, 2010 Archived March 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- "Telephone" Archived January 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- 1985 births
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- Living people
- American male poets
- American LGBTQ poets
- Canadian male poets
- 21st-century Canadian translators
- Franco-Ontarian people
- Canadian gay writers
- Canadian LGBTQ poets
- Poets from Tennessee
- University of Virginia alumni
- Writers from Ottawa
- Poets from Ontario
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century American translators
- Washington University in St. Louis faculty
- University of Southern California alumni
- Gay poets
- American gay writers