An Evening of Poetry with Brian Teare and Laura Walker

Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with poets Brian Teare and Laura Walker.

The recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships, Brian Teare is the author of the award-winning debut The Room Where I Was Born and the chapbooks Pilgrim and Transcendental Grammar Crown. His second book, Sight Map, is out from University of California Press; his third, Pleasure, will be published in 2010 by Ahsahta Press. On the graduate faculty of Mills College and University of San Francisco, he lives in San Francisco, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Laura Walker grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley. She is the author of  rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press, 2008) and swarm lure (Battery Press, 2004), and her work has appeared in various journals, including 26, Five Fingers Review, Xantippe, and Bird Dog. She is the recipient of a Fund for Poetry grant and the Ann Fields Poetry Award, and she teaches wonderful students at University of San Francisco and UC Berkeley Extension.