Dara Wier
Dara Wier directs the MFA program at UMass-Amherst. She has published eleven collections of poetry including Selected Poems (2009), Remnants of Hannah (2006), Reverse Rapture (2005), Hat on a Pond (2002), Voyages in English (2001), Our Master Plan (1998), Blue for the Plough (1992), The Book of Knowledge (1988), and All You Have in Common (1984). A Phi Beta Kappa award finalist for Our Master Plan, she has also received The Poetry Center Book Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The American Poetry Review awarded her the Jerome Shestack Prize (2001).
For more information about Dara Wier,
- See her bio, an interview, and selected poems at Poets.org
- Read several poems at the Salt River Review
- View and listen to a collection of poems at the Poetry Foundation
- Read "To An Escalator" in The Gettysburg Review.
- Read "Peach Farm" at Jubilat
- Selected poems at VerseDaily
- An article by Angela Patrinos titled "James Tate and Dara Wier at the New School" for The Best American Poetry
- Read about Dara Wier on Wikipedia
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