Paul Legault

Biography

Paul Legault is the author of three books of poetry: The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence, 2011), and The Emily Dickinson Reader (McSweeney’s, 2012). He is a writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis.

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POETRY / Spring 2014

Pistachio Tree at Chateau Noir

By Paul Legault

Beaucoup de musique de Miley on the air—
As one may imagine, there is a Rihanna button, and it is
what you push when you enter the control room, and

POETRY / Spring 2014

Personal Poem

By Paul Legault

Now when I get personal
I have only one thing to say
(a dead gay once told me,