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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
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
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...
April 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“Rebecca Foust offers her readers a new Declaration of Independence...a rejection of today’s robber barons and their dreams of empire."

Thank you to reviewer #LeeRossi and editors of @rhinopoetry.bsky.social, #VirginiaBell, #JanBottiglieri & @gelatopoet.bsky.social.

rhinopoetry.org/reviews/rebe...
April 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Grateful for the 3 day respite from our current troubles at 2025 #AWP in LA. The panel w/ @mobrowne.bsky.social, #SusanBrowne, & #JuliaLevine was well attended & my co-readers were luminous. My book signings were fun, and so was reading for the #NewOhioReview in a small city park.
April 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM