Blood, Hook and Eye

Literature & Fiction

WIER, Dara

History & Criticism

Univ of Texas Pr

Blue for the Plough

Poetry

Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Dara Wier's recent books include Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006), Hat On a Pond (Verse Press, 2002), and Voyages in English (Carnegie Mellon, 2001). Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005), a book length poem in nine-line stanzas in nine-stanza pieces, was selected by Stephen Rodefer to receive the 2006 Poetry Center Book Award from The American Poetry Archives. Among her works are the limited editions (X In Fix) in Rain Taxi's Brainstorm Series, Fly on the Wall (Oat City Press), and The Lost Epic, co-written with James Tate (Waiting for Godot Books in 1999). Her work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. In 2005 she was the Rubin Distinguished Chairholder at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Her work has appeared in many journals, including American Letters & Commentary, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, jubilat, New American Writing, slope, Southern Review, and Volt. She directs the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and along with Noy Holland and Lisa Olstein co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. Her editing work includes publishing limited edition chapbooks and broadsides with Factory Hollow Press, North Amherst, Massachusetts. Browse audio, interviews, and much more in this special website section about Wier's work. Read "A Stick, A Cup, A Bowl, A Comb," in Poetry Daily, "Peach Farm," in Jubilat, and three more poems on poetserv.org.

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Our Master Plan (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

Our Master Plan

Inscribed by author to poet & editor Paul [Zimmer] and his wife on title page.

Voyages in English (Poetry Series)

Dara Wier’s poems call to mind "the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska . . . [and] draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound makes a material presence."—Harvard Review

Hat on a Pond

United States

Wave Books

Complex and intimate, Reverse Rapture is an account of a band of explorers who go sifting through the artifacts and sensations of our times in search of a core. The generous voices of these poems bring the reader along on their quest. In awe of everything, these explorers, and the poems recounting their adventures, create a gorgeous lyrical web filled with new ways of seeing.
Dara Wier is the author of eight previous collections of poems, most recently Hat on a Pond and Voyages in English. The recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The American Poetry Review, she teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Reverse Rapture

Remnants of Hannah

“Remember when I told you about the memory competitions?” asks Dara Wier in her latest collection. Memories, apologies, and misunderstanding compete in this series of lyric poems that are intricately connected in their ability to recollect and speak to one another.

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Blood, Hook and Eye

Blue for the Plough

Blue for the Plough

Our Master Plan (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

Our Master Plan

Voyages in English (Poetry Series)

Hat on a Pond

Reverse Rapture

Remnants of Hannah

Remnants of Hannah