Rebecca Foust's new book, ONLY, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in September 2022 and received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly in July. Foust is the author of three chapbooks including The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, winner of the 2018 Swan Scythe Chapbook Award and four books including Paradise Drive, winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry. Recognitions include the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the CP Cavafy and James Hearst poetry prizes, a Marin Poet Laureateship, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee. Recent poems are in The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, Narrative, Ploughshares, POETRY, and elsewhere.

Other poems by Rebecca Foust in Verse Daily:
December 21, 2021:   "and for a time we lived" "like gods      we said water & there..."
January 6, 2021:   "Before the Formal Feeling Comes" "This is before the formal feeling comes..."
August 18, 2016:   "The Quest" "The quest was a metaphor, of course..."
July 14 2015:   "Vernal" "Some things we believe cannot be redeemed...."
August 19, 2012:   "Stork" "Vows broken like bird bones. You spanned abyss intention..."
October 28, 2010:   "Perennial" "When you've gone, it won't matter to the musk rose..."
October 12, 2010:   "What You Work For" "Heft and hank of rope, halyard..."
September 12, 2010:   "Teleology" "In the seed lies all that it can ever be..."

Books by Rebecca Foust:

Other poems on the web by Rebecca Foust:
"Divine Apparitions"
"Funicular"
"Compline"
"Guernica"
"Contradance"
Four poems
"Last Bison Gone"
"Dynamic Response of Multi-Layered Soil Media in the Frequency Domain"
"Rebecca Foust"
Two poems
"Mom's Canoe"
Three poems
"Abeyance"
"New Ars Poetica"
"eat first / poetry later"
Three poems

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