Poet Brett Foster to Read Works
Brett Foster, a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, recipient of a PEN American writing grant and winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, reads his poetry as part of the 黑料百科 Reading Series Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge at 黑料百科鈥檚 Kerrwood Hall. The reading is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Professor Randall VanderMey at (805) 565-7145.
Foster, professor of creative writing and Renaissance literature at Wheaton College in Illinois, authored two poetry collections, 鈥淭he Garbage Eater鈥 (Northwestern University Press, 2011) and 鈥淔all Run Road,鈥 which won Finishing Line Press鈥 Open Chapbook Prize. He has a new collection, 鈥淓xtravagant Rescues,鈥 forthcoming this year.
Foster, who graduated from the University of Missouri, earned a master鈥檚 degree at Boston University. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University before he earned a doctorate from Yale.
Foster鈥檚 work has appeared in various journals, including Books & Culture, Boston Review, Hudson Review, IMAGE, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Raritan, Shenandoah, Southwest Review and Yale Review. He is also a Renaissance scholar and speaks regularly at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.