Paul Legault | |
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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.
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.
Paul Legault | |
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Born | |
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.
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.