Richard Foerster (poet)

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Richard Foerster
BornOctober 29, 1949
Bronx, New York
OccupationPoet/Editor/Typesetter
Nationality American

Richard Foerster (born October 29, 1949) is an American poet and the author of nine collections.

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His most recent poetry collection is With Little Light and Sometimes None at All (Littoral Books, 2023), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Poetry , The Nation , The New England Review, Prairie Schooner , TriQuarterly , The Kenyon Review , Shenandoah, The Southern Review . [1] His honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, [2] a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. His eighth collection, Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems (Tiger Bark Press, 2019), won the 2020 Poetry By the Sea Book Award.

He was founding editor of Chautauqua Literary Journal from 2003 until his departure from the journal in 2007 and was a long-time editor at Chelsea Magazine, [3] [4] beginning in 1978. He became editor in 1994, and served in that position until 2001. Foerster received a B.A. in English Literature from Fordham College and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Virginia. He lives in Eliot, Maine.

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  1. York Weekly Living/Arts: Library lauds poetry month with guests
  2. 1 2 National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Richard Foerster
  4. Richard Foerster, Poetry - Issue Three - The Cortland Review
  5. "'Penetralia' by Richard Foerster". 25 November 2012.