Brett Foster is the author of two poetry books and a regular reviewer of contemporary poetry, new editions of older poets, and poetry in translation. His writing has appeared in Books & Culture, Boston Review, Hudson Review, IMAGE, Kenyon Review, The New Criterion, Poetry Daily, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Yale Review. A teacher of creative writing and Renaissance literature at Wheaton, he will spend 2014-15 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Azusa Pacific University.
Poetry ought to give expression to and render judgement upon the events of our history, offering something graspable, retrievable, for personal and national memory.
A belated, rebounding essay-review of Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler
A poem by Brett Foster
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