Paul Legault

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. 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.

He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, 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. 

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