Discipline: Literature – poetry

Brian Teare

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003, 2005, 2016

Brian Teare is a 2015 Pew Fellow in the Arts, and the author, most recently, of The Empty Form Goes All the Way To Heaven. He worked on Doomstead, a book about watersheds, oil, gas, and the toxicity of daily life.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Brian Teare worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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