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We're back, Slushies! Did you miss us? We missed being with you. Much of our time this summer was spent reading an array of excellent books and today we share that abundance with you. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on blockbusters, novels, poetry, craft books, and (would you believe), an encyclical from Pope Leo XIV. Kathy gets a gold star, summer-reading-challenge style, for the stack of books she read on the beach. Dagne weighs in on the plus side for audio books. And several editors are fans of book-of-the month style subscriptions, whether from Book of the Month, or indie bookstores like The Lynx and Main Street Books. Joining in on the discussion is special guest, Karen Hildebrand, one of our dedicated PBQ editors. All this talk of reading has us wondering how or if we ought to keep track of all of our reads. An online platform? A spiral notebook? How do you track your reads, Slushies? Let us know and, while you're at it, share your summer reading faves with us. We'll be back at the Slush Pile for our next episode but we hope you enjoy our reading enthusiasms. Thanks, as always, for listening. At the table: Dagne Forrest, Karen Hildebrand, Jason Schneiderman, Kathleen Volk Miller, Lisa Zerkle, Derek Grebis (Sound Engineer) PBQ Staff Reading Recs: Marion Wrenn Teaching Writing Through Journaling: Journaling as a Tool for Learning and Well-Being by Kathleen Volk Miller Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry by Ada Limón Kathleen Volk Miller Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Gladiola Girls by Marion Wrenn 11/22/63 by Stephen King Jason Schneiderman Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney Dagne Forrest Endling by Maria Reva PBQ Issue 5 Chandelier by David O'Meara Samantha Neugebauer The Au Pair by Teddy Wayne The Enlargement of Life by John Kekes Tutelary Tales by Villy Sorensen Lisa Zerkle Orbital by Samantha Harvey A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry by Mary Oliver A Stranger is an Animal Who Does Not Sing by Brian Teare from Albion Books: A Poetry Micropress Karen Hildebrand Her Read by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler by Nathan Kernan Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (Bonus! See PBQ editor Samantha Neugebauer's review of Wrong Norma here) Emily Fedon It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories by Sigrid Nunez Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Langbein Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz Alexa Josaphouitch Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins Most Eligible by Isabelle Engel
Recorded by Brian Teare for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on October 29, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Mary Sutton and Brian Teare for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 1, 2023. www.poets.org
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Jameka Williams about her Brittingham Prize-winning debut poetry collection, American Sex Tape™ (2022, The University of Wisconsin Press).Brittingham Prize judge and poet Brian Teare describes American Sex Tape™ as a collection “[s]plit between a love of watching and the fear created by it.” “Williams demolishes misogynist, racist logic with weaponized line breaks and wrecking-ball wit. Looking directly “into the camera,” Williams writes “about taking back power” and “the thin line between pleasure and collusion.” “Complex and messy and necessary in all the ways sex is,” Teare concludes, “American Sex Tape™ is brilliant Black feminist truth.”Jameka Williams holds an MFA in poetry from Northwestern University. Her poetry has been published in Prelude Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, and Gulf Coast, among others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she resides in Chicago, Illinois.You can follower her @meka_will_write on Twitter.
A new book of poems, Doomstead Days, explores our intimate entanglements with watersheds, environmental loss, and the toxic burdens we carry. The post Writing Ecopoetry During Doomstead Days: A Conversation with Brian Teare appeared first on Edge Effects.
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Brian Teare, Jed Rasula, and Kristen Prevallet.
In today's episode we present part two of the two-part panel presentation "Poetry, Publishing, Politics, and the Art of the Book" from this fall's Philalalia Small Press & Art Fair at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. This panel was hosted by Brian Teare and featured editors from Bloof, Belladonna*, Fact-Simile, and Nightboat Books.
In today’s episode we present part one of a two-part panel presentation called "Poetry, Publishing, Politics, and the Art of the Book," from this fall’s Philalalia Small Press & Art Fair at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This panel was hosted by Brian Teare and featured editors from Bloof, Belladonna*, Fact-Simile, and Nightboat Books, discussing matters of aesthetics, politics, and poetics as they inform their practices as publishers and members of the poetry community.
Jaime Shearn Coan interviews Brian Teare.
Brian Teare interviews Brent Armendinger.
Brian Teare interviews Rachel Zolf.
Brian discusses Site Map and Candy reviews Brenda Hillman
Brian Teare talks about his book in Pleasure
Brian discusses the pastoral, coming out, Emerson, birch trees, Emerson, theology
Brian talks about Albion books, teaching and Duncan
A former National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of four books—The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda Award-winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, one of Slate's 10 best poetry books of 2013. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish (Chicago, 2013). He is also the editor of At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn, and the poetry editor at Tikkun magazine. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2014 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. He teaches on the faculty of the MFA Program at the University of Maryland and lives with his family in Washington, D.C.Read poems by Brian Teare.Read poems by Joshua Weiner.Recorded On: Wednesday, March 12, 2014