On Thursday, November 4th, the Axton Reading Series brings poet Brian Teare to read from his work in the Bingham Poetry Room of Ekstrom Library at 7:30pm.

The following morning Mr. Teare will teach a master class, workshopping student poetry (see below for submission details). This class will be held in Bingham Humanities 300 from 10am-noon.

A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, as well as in the anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn. His books and chapbooks include The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, Transcendental Grammar Crown and Pleasure. On the graduate faculty of the University of San Francisco and Mills College, he lives in San Francisco, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. He maintains a web presence at www.brianteare.net.

We are now accepting submissions from those interested in having their poetry workshopped with Mr. Teare. To submit work, please complete following: 1. Place paper submissions in the Axton mailbox in HUM 315 (3 poems, maximum). 2. In addition, email a copy of submitted work to me (Kristen Miller) at axtonseries@gmail.com. Include contact information on the submission (email and phone). Submissions are due no later than noon this Friday, October 29th. Good luck to all!

Reading: Thursday, Nov. 4th, 7:30 p.m., Bingham Poetry Room Master Class: Friday, Nov. 5th, 10 a.m. - noon, Humanities 300