Brain Teare

Brian Teare is a poet and 2020 Guggenheim Fellow who has published seven poetry books. His work often combines ekphrasis, illness, and environmental observation. He teaches as a Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville. His collection Doomstead Days, published by Nightboat Books, won the Four Quartets Prize. His Poem Bitten by a Man won the 2024 William Carlos Williams Award. A selected essays, Textual Preference, is slated for Nightboat in 2027.