Rebecca Foust
@rebeccafoust.bsky.social
Poet w/ 8 books, Marin County Poet Laureate Emeritus
Assistant Editor @narrativemag.bsky.social
YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Backbone Press, October 2024)
Assistant Editor @narrativemag.bsky.social
YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Backbone Press, October 2024)
Please join us on February 1st at 6:00 p.m for the first @bazaarcafesf.bsky.social Writers Salon of 2026, featuring the poetry and fiction of @judeberman.bsky.social, @vidajames.bsky.social, @kathleenwheaton.bsky.social, and myself, hosted by Peter Kline. 5927 California Street, San Francisco.
January 25, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Please join us on February 1st at 6:00 p.m for the first @bazaarcafesf.bsky.social Writers Salon of 2026, featuring the poetry and fiction of @judeberman.bsky.social, @vidajames.bsky.social, @kathleenwheaton.bsky.social, and myself, hosted by Peter Kline. 5927 California Street, San Francisco.
Save the date: Reading on Sunday, February 1 at 6-8:30pm at @bazaarcafesf.bsky.social’s monthly #WritersSalon with @judeberman.bsky.social, @vidajames.bsky.social, and
@kathleenwheaton.bsky.social, hosted by Peter Kline. 5927 California Street, San Francisco. See you there!
@kathleenwheaton.bsky.social, hosted by Peter Kline. 5927 California Street, San Francisco. See you there!
January 22, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Save the date: Reading on Sunday, February 1 at 6-8:30pm at @bazaarcafesf.bsky.social’s monthly #WritersSalon with @judeberman.bsky.social, @vidajames.bsky.social, and
@kathleenwheaton.bsky.social, hosted by Peter Kline. 5927 California Street, San Francisco. See you there!
@kathleenwheaton.bsky.social, hosted by Peter Kline. 5927 California Street, San Francisco. See you there!
I'm honored to have my poem chosen as @ruthawad.bsky.social's Spring 2026 Poetry Pick for the #SouthernIndianaReview, edited by #RonMitchell.
"The Link: is from the 2nd edition of my new #chapbook, available soon from #BlueLightPress!
Read full poem at www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awad-poetry-picks/the-link
"The Link: is from the 2nd edition of my new #chapbook, available soon from #BlueLightPress!
Read full poem at www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awad-poetry-picks/the-link
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I'm honored to have my poem chosen as @ruthawad.bsky.social's Spring 2026 Poetry Pick for the #SouthernIndianaReview, edited by #RonMitchell.
"The Link: is from the 2nd edition of my new #chapbook, available soon from #BlueLightPress!
Read full poem at www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awad-poetry-picks/the-link
"The Link: is from the 2nd edition of my new #chapbook, available soon from #BlueLightPress!
Read full poem at www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awad-poetry-picks/the-link
Reading tomorrow (Monday, January 5th) at 6pm PDT with #JeanneWagner, hosted by #ShawnaLeahSwetech of #RivertownPoets and #AqusCafé.
Via Zoom - open mic follows
Link to join: us06web.zoom.us/j/6508887879
Passcode: 2241991
Via Zoom - open mic follows
Link to join: us06web.zoom.us/j/6508887879
Passcode: 2241991
January 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Reading tomorrow (Monday, January 5th) at 6pm PDT with #JeanneWagner, hosted by #ShawnaLeahSwetech of #RivertownPoets and #AqusCafé.
Via Zoom - open mic follows
Link to join: us06web.zoom.us/j/6508887879
Passcode: 2241991
Via Zoom - open mic follows
Link to join: us06web.zoom.us/j/6508887879
Passcode: 2241991
Reposted by Rebecca Foust
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 22: Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust’s new chapbook, You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems, was just released by Backbone Press. New poems are in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.
rebeccafoust.com
Instagram: @rebecca.foust.52
Rebecca Foust’s new chapbook, You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems, was just released by Backbone Press. New poems are in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.
rebeccafoust.com
Instagram: @rebecca.foust.52
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 22: Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust’s new chapbook, You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems, was just released by Backbone Press. New poems are in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.
rebeccafoust.com
Instagram: @rebecca.foust.52
Rebecca Foust’s new chapbook, You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems, was just released by Backbone Press. New poems are in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.
rebeccafoust.com
Instagram: @rebecca.foust.52
Thank you to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and to the production team of #TheSlowdown for featuring "Amalgam" on its daily podcast today at www.slowdownshow.org and to #Plume and editor #DanielLawless for first publishing the poem. What a treat, to hear your work read by a pro in a real sound studio!
The Slowdown
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Maggie Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry
www.slowdownshow.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thank you to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and to the production team of #TheSlowdown for featuring "Amalgam" on its daily podcast today at www.slowdownshow.org and to #Plume and editor #DanielLawless for first publishing the poem. What a treat, to hear your work read by a pro in a real sound studio!
Delighted to see this generous and smart new review by @susangunter.bsky.social in the new issue of #HarvardReview, www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
The review covers my book, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, releasing soon with #BlueLightPress, edited by @dianefrankpoet.bsky.social.
The review covers my book, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, releasing soon with #BlueLightPress, edited by @dianefrankpoet.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Delighted to see this generous and smart new review by @susangunter.bsky.social in the new issue of #HarvardReview, www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
The review covers my book, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, releasing soon with #BlueLightPress, edited by @dianefrankpoet.bsky.social.
The review covers my book, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, releasing soon with #BlueLightPress, edited by @dianefrankpoet.bsky.social.
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.
"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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.
"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.
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.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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.
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
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October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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
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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
Read the full poem: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/me...
#bestofthenet #meyerlemon #issuexii
October 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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
Read the full poem: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/me...
#bestofthenet #meyerlemon #issuexii
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!
#ZeinaHashemBeck, emcee @susiebright.bsky.social, #NorahPiehl, #DavidRoderick, #RachelRichardson, #LeftMarginLit, & #VintageBerkeley!
October 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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!
#ZeinaHashemBeck, emcee @susiebright.bsky.social, #NorahPiehl, #DavidRoderick, #RachelRichardson, #LeftMarginLit, & #VintageBerkeley!
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
@dapowell.bsky.social, #AracelisGirmay, @jasonbayani.bsky.social, #GillianConoley, #KeithEkiss, #LourdesFigueroa, #MichalMJJones, #MiaAyumiMalhotra
October 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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
@dapowell.bsky.social, #AracelisGirmay, @jasonbayani.bsky.social, #GillianConoley, #KeithEkiss, #LourdesFigueroa, #MichalMJJones, #MiaAyumiMalhotra
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.
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.
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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.
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.
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
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
September 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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
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
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...
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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...
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...
Read here: voxpopulisphere.com/2025/08/10/d...
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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...
Read here: voxpopulisphere.com/2025/08/10/d...
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
Read the full poem: www.versedaily.org/2025/lovelet...
#loveletter #versedaily #conniepost
August 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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
Read the full poem: www.versedaily.org/2025/lovelet...
#loveletter #versedaily #conniepost
~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
With thanks to Editor of #VerseDaily @jpdancingbear.bsky.social and Editors of Women in a Golden State ( #GunpowderPress ), @dianaraab.bsky.social and #ChryssYost.
#californiadreaming
August 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
~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
With thanks to Editor of #VerseDaily @jpdancingbear.bsky.social and Editors of Women in a Golden State ( #GunpowderPress ), @dianaraab.bsky.social and #ChryssYost.
#californiadreaming
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...
northamericanreview.org/.../end-marr...
June 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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...
northamericanreview.org/.../end-marr...
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
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
May 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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
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
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.
May 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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.
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...
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...
May 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Rebecca Foust
"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."
May 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"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."
Reposted by Rebecca Foust
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
April 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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