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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 2h

Friends, I'm happy and honored to have another poem in #OntheSeawall --thanks to editor @ronslate.bsky.social, www.ronslate.com/tacoma-narro...

"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.

Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you @tahomareview.bsky.social for nominating "Plague" for Best of the Net for 2026, alongside other great #artworks and online literary #writing! Read Issue 28 / Spring 2025 below.

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 14d

Friends, I’m honored to be the featured poet in the #newissue of #TheMissouriReview, a journal I’ve admired for decades. To read the rest of my poems + terrific work by #poets including #CampbellMcGrath & @kaicarlsonwee.bsky.social, consider buying the issue at
secure.touchnet.net/C20067_ustor...

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks to the editors of #BrackenMagazine for nominating "Meyer Lemon" (Issue XII) for Best of the Net, alongside #EdBrickell, #SarahBrowning, #JeanAnneFeldeisen, #SatiMookherjee, and #BrianSimoneau.

Read the full poem: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/me...

#bestofthenet #meyerlemon #issuexii

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 20d

Our @litquake.org event “Women of a Certain Age Read Poems on Sex & Death” was a huge hit! 🥂Thanks to #KeetjeKuipers, #SusanBrowne, @danushalameris.bsky.social,
#ZeinaHashemBeck, emcee @susiebright.bsky.social, #NorahPiehl, #DavidRoderick, #RachelRichardson, #LeftMarginLit, & #VintageBerkeley!

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you #NorahPiehl, #Litquake, #MakeOutRoom & #DanielHandler for another Poetry World Series! We packed the house and everyone was dazzling--

@dapowell.bsky.social, #AracelisGirmay, @jasonbayani.bsky.social, #GillianConoley, #KeithEkiss, #LourdesFigueroa, #MichalMJJones, #MiaAyumiMalhotra

Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Sep 19

Women of a Certain Age Read Poems on Sex and Death
Fri, Oct 10 at 6pm
Vintage Berkeley, 2113 Vine St
Tix: sched.co/28R3y

Featuring: #ZeinaHashemBeck, #SusanBrowne, @danushalameris.bsky.social & #KeetjeKuipers, emceed by @susiebright.bsky.social, & joined by winemaker #TerahBajjalieh.

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Sep 18

Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition
Sat, Oct 11 at 7pm - 9pm PDT
Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, SF
Tickets: sched.co/28RLj

Featuring: @jasonbayani.bsky.social, #GillianConoley, #KeithEkiss, #LourdesFigueroa, #MJJones, #MiaAyumiMalhotra, #DanielHandler, #AracelisGirmay & @dapowell.bsky.social

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you to @greggmcbride.bsky.social‬, wonderful poet and editor of #InnisfreePoetryJournal, for featuring my #poems in Issue 41, www.innisfreepoetry.org and to @annehw.bsky.social for her generous #review of my book YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, www.innisfreepoetry.org/innisfree-41...

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Sep 1

Really enjoyed this substack #essay by #DionOReilly, "Subject C, the Numinous, and Ellen Bass’s ‘Gate C-22’"

Read here: voxpopulisphere.com/2025/08/10/d...

Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Aug 31

Really powerful poem by @conniepostpoet.bsky.social on @versedaily.bsky.social, "Love Letter" to herself as a young girl

Read the full poem: www.versedaily.org/2025/lovelet...

#loveletter #versedaily #conniepost

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Aug 3

~from “California Dreaming”, featured today in @versedaily.bsky.social. www.versedaily.org/2025/califor...

With thanks to Editor of #VerseDaily @jpdancingbear.bsky.social and Editors of Women in a Golden State ( #GunpowderPress ), @dianaraab.bsky.social and #ChryssYost.

#californiadreaming

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you to the editors of @northamerreview.bsky.social- Gary Kelley, Rachel Morgan, JD Schraffenberger, Emily Stowe, & Grant Tracey for selecting my #poem “End-of-Marriage Music” for #publication in their #OpenSpace platform.

northamericanreview.org/.../end-marr...

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · May 19

See you there!

Marin Poetry Center #ReadingSeries:
Rebecca Foust & #SusanBrowne

Thursday, May 22, 2025, | 6:30- 8:00 pm
Location: #MillValleyPublicLibrary (Creekside Room)
375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941

Registration required: millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/13851796

Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks to everyone who came to my #booklaunch! It was a treat to get to read with #FrancescaBell & to hear her new, absolutely stunning poems. Thanks also to #LeftCoastWriters, #BookPassage Bookstore & Cafe, & #LindaWatanabeMcFerrin, my wonderful teacher.

Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · May 12

Very happy to have a poem in this new #anthology!

WOMEN IN A GOLDEN STATE (@gunpowderpress.bsky.social) includes #poems by 175 #californiapoets, to recognize 175 years of #californiastatehood. Edited by @dianaraab.bsky.social and #ChryssYost.

Order here: gunpowderpress.com/product/wome...

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · May 4

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Apr 17

NBCC member @rebeccafoust.bsky.social‘s new book, "You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems" (Backbone Press, 2024) won a first place in the California chapter of the 2025 National Federation of Press Women’s Prize and has been forwarded on to the national competition: buff.ly/QrQFmsm

YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems | Backbone Press

Rebecca Foust‘s fourth full-length book, ONLY (Four Way Books 2022), earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Previous titles include Paradise Drive, God, Seed, and All That Gorgeous Pitiless…

backbonepress.org

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Apr 18

NBCC member @rebeccafoust.bsky.social‘s new book, "You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems" (Backbone Press, 2024) was reviewed by Joyce Peseroff for the March/April 2025 edition of On the Seawall:

on You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems, a poetry chapbook by Rebecca Foust – On the Seawall

“The book’s most trenchant theme: science is shaped and driven by the political and cultural values of the individuals and institutions that fund investigations, whether private endowments or the…

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Apr 22

Meet our players (a.k.a. #poets) #ChristianGullette,
#MichalMJJones and #YaccairaSalvatierra for this year’s #PoetryWorldSeries, taking place at the #MillValleyPublicLibrary this Friday, April 25 at 7pm. Book sales to follow.

Register here ⚾🧢https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/13742365

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Apr 20

Meet our players (a.k.a. poets) #ArmenDavoudian,
@luizagurley.bsky.social, and #MiaAyumiMalhotra for this year’s #PoetryWorldSeries, taking place at the #MillValleyPublicLibrary next Friday, April 25 at 7pm. Book sales to follow.

Register here ⚾🧢https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/13742365

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Apr 20

Meet our emcee & umpires (a.k.a. judges) for this year’s #PoetryWorldSeries Mill Valley Edition, taking place at the #MillValleyPublicLibrary next Friday, April 25 at 7pm (doors at 6:30pm). Book sales to follow the reading.

Register here ⚾🧢https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/13742365

Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thank you to @aidenhunt.bsky.social, editor of
@phillychapbook.bsky.social and to reviewer #RickMullin for this generous and eloquent review of my new book.

Read here: phillychapbookreview.org/what-happene...

#review #phillypoetrychapbookreview #aidenhunt #chapbook #backbonepress #lovepoems

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Apr 13

#LeftCoastWriters & #BookPassage presents

Book Launch
YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems
Rebecca Foust reading with Marin Poet Laureate,
#FrancescaBell

Saturday, May 10, 2025
2pm (Pacific Time)
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA

More info: www.bookpassage.com/event/left-c...

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thrilled to be a part of What the House Knows, edited by @dianelockward.bsky.social of #TerrapinBooks.

What the House Knows is an #anthology of 116 #poems by 116 #poets. Each poem features a #house. Listen to what the walls have to say.

Available for purchase: www.terrapinbooks.com/what-the-hou...

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