
The Elliston Poet-in-Residence
The George Elliston Poetry Fund has fostered the development of promising young poets and honored the achievement of established poets since 1951. Each year, through the Poet-in-Residence Program, a distinguished poet comes to UC to give public lectures and readings, while conducting seminars and workshops with graduate writers. The Elliston Fund also supports a writers series that has brought Nobel Prize Laureates, U.S. and British Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and National Book Award winners– from early campus residencies by Robert Frost to more recently hosted Elliston Poets such as Laureate Tracy K. Smith and 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner Tyehimba Jess. Every reading has free and open to the public since the room's opening in 1951.
Brian Teare: Poet-in-Residence for 2023
A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Brian Teare is the author of six critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and Doomstead Days, longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent book is a reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (Ahsahta 2015/Nightboat 2022). He’s also published eight chapbooks, including Paradise Was Typeset, SORE EROS, and Headlands Quadrats. His honors include the Four Quartets Prize, Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, and fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony.
After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia. An editorial board member of Poetry Daily, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.
Elliston Poets, 1951 to Present
Year / Poet | |
2022 Heid E. Erdrich |
1986 Marge Piercy |
2021 Tyehimba Jess |
1985 Richard Howard |
2019 Mary Ruefle | 1984 Jean Valentine |
2018 Amit Majmudar | 1983 Johh Silkin |
2017 Denise Duhamel | 1982 Thom Gunn |
2016 Carl Phillips | 1981 Carolyn Kizer |
2015 Mary Szybist | 1980 Michael Harper |
2014 C. K. Williams | 1979 John Ashbery |
2013 Claudia Emerson | 1978 Louise Gluck |
2012 Terrance Hayes | 1977 Philip Levine |
2011 Albert Goldbarth | 1976 Gary Snyder |
2010 Alice Fulton | 1975 William Stafford |
2009 Lynn Emanuel | 1974 Wendell Berry |
2008 John Koethe | 1973 Denise Levertov |
2007 David St. John | 1972 Robert Wallace |
2006 Molly Peacock | 1971 Louis Simpson |
2005 Carl Dennis | 1970 John Wain |
2004 C. D. Wright | 1969 John Hollander |
2003 Linda Gregerson | 1968 David Wagoner |
2002 Henry Taylor | 1967 Donald Justice |
2001 Rodney Jones | 1966 Donald Hall |
2000 Jane Hirshfield | 1965 Denis Donoghue |
1999 Wyatt Prunty |
1964 Daniel Hoffman |
1998 Jay Wright | 1963 Donald Davie |
1997 Ellen Bryant Voigt | 1962 John Press |
1996 Dave Smith |
1961 Richard Eberhart |
1995 David Lehman | 1960 David Daiches |
1994 Marilyn Nelson | 1959 Karl Shapiro |
1993 Heather McHugh | 1958 Randall Jarrell |
1992 John Haines | 1957 John Betjeman |
1991 Jane Flanders | 1956 Peter Viereck |
1990 Alfred Corn | 1955 Robert Frost |
1989 Marilyn Hacker | 1954 Robert Lowell |
1988 Gary Soto | 1953 Stephen Spender |
1987 Mary Oliver | 1952 John Berryman 1951 Robert P. Tristam Coffin
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