Paul Legault
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| Born | 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, The Literati Quarterly,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
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