Paul Legault
line drawing of Paul Legault
Born (1985-06-25) June 25, 1985
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
EducationUniversity 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.[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

  • 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

  • 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.
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