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Jane Mead and
Brian Teare

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Prize-winning poet Jane Mead
is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently The Usable Field
(Alice James Books, 2008).  Her previous collections include The House of Poured-Out Waters
(Illinois, 2001) and The Lord and the General Din of the World (Sarabande, 1986),
for which she received the Katherine A. Morton Prize in Poetry.  Her more recent honors
include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Completion Grant from the Lannan Foundation, and a
Whiting Writer’s Award. For many years the Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University,
she now manages the family ranch in northern California.

Read two poems by Jane Mead on the Academy of American Poets website:
“The Origin” and
“I Have Been Living.”

Read Jane Mead’s poem “Was Light,—”
which received the 2004 Cohen Award from Ploughshares.

Brian Teare
is the recipient of Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony
poetry fellowships, and has published poetry in Ploughshares, Boston Review,
Provincetown Arts, VOLT, Verse and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry,
and other publications.  His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, was winner of
the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Triangle Award for Gay Poetry.
More recently, he is the author of two chapbooks, Pilgrim and Transcendental
Grammar Crown, and a full-length collection, Sight Map, (University of California Press, 2009).

Download for reading a PDF of a seven-page excerpt
from Brian Teare’s latest collection, Sight Map.

Read on the Poems for the First 100 Days website “Citizen Strophes,”
Brian Teare’s poem written for Day 29 of President Obama’s term.