Brian Teare

Jan 24, 2024 | vabook.org | Brian Teare |Aggie Blum Thompson |Courtney Thorsson |Adriana Trigiani

Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary. They also teach in Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program …Adriana Trigiani is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Shoemaker’s Wife.

Sep 28, 2023 | lithub.com | Brian Teare

In 2009 I started making poems in dialogue with the visual art and writing of Agnes Martin. I was at the beginning of what my friend the writer Miranda Mellis called “a healing crisis,” the most acute physical symptoms of which would last for five years. In the foreground of this healing crisis were chronic illness and pain, exacerbated by economics.

Aug 31, 2023 | brooklynrail.org | Brian Teare

By James Sherry James Sherry is the author of 14 books of poetry and prose, most recently Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) and the poetry book Entangled Bank (Chax Press, 2016). Since 1976, he has edited Roof Books and Roof Magazine, publishing nearly 200 titles of seminal works of language writing, flarf, conceptual poetry, new narrative, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation, Inc.

Aug 29, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Brian Teare |Janani Ambikapathy

Reading Brian Teare’s Poem Bitten by a Man, one can almost hear the text thinking aloud: the questions that occupy Teare about language and image—for instance, is one more adequate than the other for the purpose of abstraction?—are asked in plain view. The problems—“how to make language more, a dimension that holds & meets multiple demands: love, work, death, art. & gut trouble, joint pain, headaches that last for days,” or “How to say what can’t be seen?”—become the poems.