Paul Legault

Paul Legault
line drawing of Paul Legault
Born	(1985-06-25) 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, 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

External links

• "Author's site"
• "An Interview with Paul Legault", BOMB, 15. Dec, 2010
• "Telephone"
• A video poem in InDigest