CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE: with Brian Teare

FREE ONLINE POETRY WORKSHOP and READING

THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 3–4pm (ET) FREE on Zoom

Brian Teare leads a thinking-and-reading-through of “Bone Dust” by Oliver Baez Bendorf, followed by a short reading of his own work.

This free, participatory event (on Zoom) features Brian Teare, one of our favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “Bone Dust” by Oliver Baez Bendorf. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.

Whether already well-versed in the “close reading” of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been “getting it,” CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE provides a digital gathering for taking a refreshing deep dive into poetry. Actively participate or simply listen and learn!

A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Brian Teare is the author of eight chapbooks and six critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and 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 publication is the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven; his seventh book, Poem Bitten by a Man, is forthcoming in the fall of 2023. His honors include Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, and fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony. He’s an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia and an editorial board member of Poetry Daily. He lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Toward opening new possibilities for discovery, thought, connection, and joy, The Flow Chart Foundation explores poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of gay American poet John Ashbery, showcasing contemporary artists from a diversity of cultural, ethnic, gender-identified, age, ability, economic, and aesthetic viewpoints.