Brian Spears revisits his own exile in first collection of poems March 15, 2011: Knight Arts' Neil de la Flor interviews Brian Spears about his first poetry collection, A Witness in Exile. Spears is the poetry editor of The Rumpus and teaches literature and creative writing at Florida Atlantic University, but he spent the first half of his life as a Jehovah's Witness. In his mid-twenties, he became exiled from his faith and [...] by Harriet Staff