A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Brian Teare is the author of eight chapbooks and six critically acclaimed books, including Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary awards. His seventh book, Poem Bitten by a Man, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in fall 2023. After more than a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, Teare is now an associate professor of poetry at the University of Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.
Introduction
Summer 2023
Brian Teare Introduces fahima ife
I first read fahima ife’s brilliant debut, Maroon Choreography, shortly after reading visual artist Torkwase Dyson’s essay “Black Interiority: Notes on Architecture, Infrastructure, Environmental Justice, and Abstract Drawing.” Maroon Choreographyimmediately […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
Excerpts from Poem Bitten by a Man
The Kenyon Review · Excerpts From Poem Bitten By A Man A freight train passes through the frame into this sentence, childhood nights I think its mournful horn is the […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
Convince me you have a seed there
(Johnson, VT) off Plot Road in March thawI stop in a stand of red pines to listen to tilt as each trunk follows wind in its crown& sounds grain against […]
Poetry
Fall 2013
Clear Water Renga
Fog, error, radar failed :: the container ship hit the bridge tower hard :: its hull split, lost fifty-eight thousand gallons of bunker fuel oil :: November 7th, 2007 :: […]
Mar/Apr 2019
Olivine, Quartz, Granite, Carnelian
(Johnson, VT) On foot under thunder heading in from the west, I wasn’t thinking rain but now I’m thinking rain on Plot Road while I watch Foote Brook do its […]
Brian Teare
A former NEA Fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the […]