Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. His writing has appeared in POETRY, Paris Review, Tin House, Slate, New England Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and numerous other publications. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
New Year
In the last year I’ve been unable to banish a single monster slavering in the light of the moon, or rid my days of this stupid old man in Washington […]
Poetry
Winter 2009
A Long Time I’ve Wanted to Say Something
A long time I’ve wanted to say somethingand not know the next word untilit busied my mouth. Love talk, anger, consolation,lies, mad hints at the edge of greenwater where fish […]
May/June 2020
Testimonial
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. It’s difficult to care, much, for so much death. Look, my whole side aches, more than all the days I have should engender. […]
Paul Guest
Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. His writing has appeared in POETRY, […]