Brian Teare is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and author of numerous poetry collections, including The Room Where I Was Born, winner of the Bittingham Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Pleasure, winner of the Lambda Literary Award; and Doomstead Days, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Praise for earlier editions: "[A] reminder that contemporary poetry is not only alive and well but continuing to grow." - Publishers Weekly"This collection stands out among the crowd claiming to represent emergent poets. Much of the editing and preliminary reading was done by emerging poets themselves, which results in an anthology that's fresh and eclectic, and may actually represent a significant portion of the best new poetry being written by the next generation." - Virginia Quarterly Review

Brian Teare is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and author of numerous poetry collections, including The Room Where I Was Born, winner of the Bittingham Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Pleasure, winner of the Lambda Literary Award; and Doomstead Days, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Praise for earlier editions: "[A] reminder that contemporary poetry is not only alive and well but continuing to grow." - Publishers Weekly"This collection stands out among the crowd claiming to represent emergent poets. Much of the editing and preliminary reading was done by emerging poets themselves, which results in an anthology that's fresh and eclectic, and may actually represent a significant portion of the best new poetry being written by the next generation." - Virginia Quarterly Review