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by George J. Dance

Brian Teare (born 1974) is an American poet and academic.[1]

Brian Teare

Brian Teare. Courtesy Ahsahta Press.

Life[]

Youth and education[]

Teare was born in Athens, Georgia, and grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[2]

He earned a B.A. in English and creative writing at the University of Alabama, and an M.F.A. in creative writing in 2000 from Indiana University.[2]

Career[]

Teare taught in the San Francisco area for a decade. In 2011 he lived in Philadelphia, and ws an assistant professor at Temple University.[1]

He published poetry in Ploughshares, Boston Review, Provincetown Arts, Verse, and Seneca Review.[3] His writing has appeared in Legitimate Dangers: American poets of the new century (2006) and At the Barriers: On the poetry of Thom Gunn (2009).[2]

In 2008, Teare founded Albion Books, a 1-man micropress that specializes in limited edition poetry chapbooks, broadsides, and print ephemera.[1]

Writing[]

Robin Zucker: "Brian Teare is a master poet. He can ‘write rain into the picture’ and make the written word seem real. But here, in Pleasure, he refuses to do so. He resists the way the lyric attempts to lull us or protect us from pain. In these poems language fails. The form, the poem, paper, the lyric — even pain fails. And in this failure I am moved beyond words, through words, and brought back to pleasure, to freedom, to the perfect weather of true grief, to the spectacular disaster that is life. I have not read a book like this for a long time. It is painfully good."[4]

Recognition[]

Teare's first book of poetry, The Room Where I Was Born (2003), won the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. He has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony.[3]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • The Room Where I Was Born. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
  • Pilgrim (chapbook). Berkeley, CA: PalOmine Press, 2004.
  • Transcendental Grammar Crown (chapbook). San Leandro, CA: Woodland Editions, 2006.
  • Sight Map: Poems. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009.
  • Pleasure. Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 2010.
  • Upwards Arrow (chapbook). Montpelier, OH: Pavement Saw Press, 2011.
  • Black Sun Crown (chapbook). Philadelphia: Fact-Simile Editions, 2012.
  • Paradise Was Typeset (chapbook). [Minneapolis, MN?]: DoubleCross Press, 2012.
  • Companion Grasses. Richmond, CA: Omnidawn, 2013.
  • The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven. Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 2015.
Brian_Teare_reads_"Emerson_Susquehanna"

Brian Teare reads "Emerson Susquehanna"

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Brian Teare, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Feb. 9, 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Brian Teare b. 1974, Poetry Foundation. Web, Feb. 9, 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Brian Teare," Blackbird 4:1 (Spring 2005), Blackbird Archive, Web, Feb. 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ Pleasure, Ahsahta Press. Web, Dec. 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ Search results = au:Brian Teare, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 5, 2015.

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