Teare

DEGREES

M.F.A. Indiana University, 2000
B.A. University of Alabama, 1997

BOOKS

Doomstead Days, Nightboat Books, 2019
Companion Grasses, Omnidawn Publishing, 2013
Pleasure, Ahsahta Press, 2010
Sight Map, University of California Press, 2009
The Room Where I Was Born, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

CHAPBOOKS

Headlands Quadrats, DoubleCross Press, 2018
[ black sun crown ], FactSimile Press, 2013
Helplessness, GoodMorning Menagerie,2013
Sore Eros: Poems & Lyric Essays, Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013
Paradise Was Typeset, DoubleCross Press, 2012
­ , Pavement Saw Press, 2011
Transcendental Grammar Crown, Woodland Editions, 2006
Pilgrim, palOmine Press, 2004

POEMS PUBLISHED IN

Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Journal of Medical Humanities, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New American Writing, New England Review, Ploughshares, Verse, Virginia Quarterly Review, VOLT, and elsewhere.

ANTHOLOGIZED WORK IN

SELECTED ESSAYS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

HONORS

  • Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant (Harvard University), 2019-20
  • MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2016
  • Henry David Thoreau Environmental Writing Fellowship (Vermont Studio Center), 2016
  • Pew Fellowship in the Arts, 2015-17
  • Finalist,Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2014
  • Fund for Poetry Award, 2013
  • American Antiquarian Society Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research, 2011
  • Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, 2011
  • Lambda Literary Award for Gay Male Poetry, 2010
  • Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Prize, 2009
  • Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry, 2006
  • Residency, MacDowell Colony, 2005
  • Winner, Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, 2004
  • Literature Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 2003
  • Brittingham Prize (University of Wisconsin Press), 2003
  • MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2003
  • Phillip Roth Residency in Creative Writing (Bucknell University), 2003
  • Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship (Stanford University), 2000-02
First Name: 
Brian
Position: 
Associate Professor; Director, Area Program in Poetry Writing
Email: 
bt5ps@virginia.edu
Computing ID: 
bt5ps
Office Address: 

433 Bryan Hall

Photo: 
Brian Teare headshot
Specialties: 

American Poetry and Poetics, Ecopoetics and Environmental Humanities, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Small Press Publishing

Classification: 
Class Schedule: 
M 2:00-4:30, MW 6:00-7:15
Office Hours: 
Mondays, 12:00-1:45, Wednesdays, 4-5:45, & by Zoom appt.