Education
Teig attended the Kiski School in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania.
( Teig’s poems display his ability to -create surprising ...)
Teig’s poems display his ability to -create surprising metaphors and images. These are integrated seamlessly into startlingly original poems, which, though often difficult, aren’t inaccessible. "With Teig I could never calculate the poem’s direction," Stephen Dobyns writes in his Foreword. "Yet where the poem wound up . . . felt exactly right, while the ride itself, the reading experience, gave great pleasure." Michael Teig earned his MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts, where he studied with Dara Wier and the late Agha Shahid Ali. He founded the literary magazine Jubilat, which operates out of the UMass campus. Currently, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he works as a freelance writer and editor while continuing to run Jubilat.
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Teig attended the Kiski School in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania.
Born and raised in western Pennsylvania in the City of Franklin, Teig holds a bachelor"s degree in English from Oberlin College and a master of fine arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Founded in 1888, this all-boys boarding school introduced him to arts Teig"s poems have appeared in periodicals including FIELD, The Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, The Ohio Review, and The Gettysburg Review.
He is a founding editor of jubilat, a twice-yearly international poetry journal.
Teig currently (as of late 2006) lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where he works as a freelance writer and editors
( Teig’s poems display his ability to -create surprising ...)