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 蜜桃传媒 Reading Series Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge at 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 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.