Toward Monterosso, the northenmost village in the string of five, the picturesque coastal cliff path…

Brian Tierney
Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, winner of The Jake Adam York Prize (Milkweed Editions). A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2018 George Bogin Memorial Award, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Paris Review, Kenyon Review, NER, AGNI, Poets.org and others. He lives in Oakland, and teaches poetry at The Writing Salon.