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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)
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.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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.
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 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.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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...
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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
October 19, 2025 at 1:07 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!
October 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
October 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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.
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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
September 18, 2025 at 1:52 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...
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 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...
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 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
August 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
~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
August 3, 2025 at 9:31 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...
June 23, 2025 at 4:15 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
May 19, 2025 at 9:58 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.
May 15, 2025 at 9:19 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...
May 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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
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
Reposted by Rebecca Foust
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…
buff.ly
April 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
April 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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
April 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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
April 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
April 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#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...
April 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM