Creative Writing Program
Creative Writing Program
Brian in brown shirt with glasses in front of trees

Brian Teare

Brian in brown shirt with glasses in front of trees
Professor of Poetry and Director of the Poetry Writing Concentration
Email: bt5ps@virginia.edu

A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Brian Teare is the author of  seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, 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 most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven and Poem Bitten by a Man, winner of the 2024 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. A selected essays, Textual Preference, will be out from Nightboat Books in 2027. More details.