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.

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.

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...

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

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!

Thank you #NorahPiehl, #Litquake, #MakeOutRoom & #DanielHandler for another Poetry World Series! We packed the house and everyone was dazzling-- @dapowell.bsky.social, #AracelisGirmay, @jasonbayani.bsky.social, #GillianConoley, #KeithEkiss, #LourdesFigueroa, #MichalMJJones, #MiaAyumiMalhotra

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.

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

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...

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...

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

~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

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...

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

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.

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...

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

NBCC member @rebeccafoust.bsky.social‘s new book, "You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems" (Backbone Press, 2024) won a first place in the California chapter of the 2025 National Federation of Press Women’s Prize and has been forwarded on to the national competition: buff.ly/QrQFmsm

NBCC member @rebeccafoust.bsky.social‘s new book, "You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems" (Backbone Press, 2024) was reviewed by Joyce Peseroff for the March/April 2025 edition of On the Seawall:

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

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

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

Thank you to @aidenhunt.bsky.social, editor of @phillychapbook.bsky.social and to reviewer #RickMullin for this generous and eloquent review of my new book. Read here: phillychapbookreview.org/what-happene... #review #phillypoetrychapbookreview #aidenhunt #chapbook #backbonepress #lovepoems

#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...

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...

“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...

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.

Looking forward to seeing you #AWP Bookfair 2025 in LA! Thursday March 27: Author Signings 10:30-11:30am #TahomaLiteraryReview #631 12-1pm #Press53 #1118 3-3:30pm @bullcitypress.com #304 Friday March 28: Panel Reading 9-10:15am w/ @mobrowne.bsky.social, #SusanBrowne, & #JuliaLevine

Thank you to @jpdancingbear.bsky.social & @versedaily.bsky.social for featuring "The Golden Country" from my #newbook YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems ( #BackbonePress 2024), and thank you @southernreview.bsky.social for first publishing the #poem. www.versedaily.org/2025/thegold...

“You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems takes a familiar approach to past and present political horrors and turns it on its head." With thanks to reviewer #JoycePeseroff and publisher, @ronslate.bsky.social of #OntheSeawall. Read here: www.ronslate.com/on-you-are-l... #bookreview

Praise for A Brief History of The Midwest by Andrew Grace blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-brie...

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

Excerpt from my poem “The Stone”, featured on February 20 in @poetrydaily.bsky.social, originally published in @southernreview.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/the-sto... #thestone #poem #poetrydaily #thesouthernreview #poetryfeature #virginiawoolf

Today's Featured Poem: "The Stone" by Rebecca Foust, from the Fall 2024 edition of Southern Review. Read here: poems.com/poem/the-sto...

Nationwide CONSUMER BOYCOTT planned for Friday February 28th from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM No purchases online, or in-store. No Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy. Buy essentials with cash at small local shops. Consider canceling your FB, X, or Amazon accounts on this day.

“Julia Looking Forward to the Hate” is from my new chapbook from #BackbonePress, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, probing the parallels between #GeorgeOrwell’s totalitarian #dystopia and #America’s political landscape. Order at backbonepress.org/titles/you-a.... All sales go to #WEHealthClinic.

#LongshipPress Presents: #PoetryReading Featuring @sianessa.bsky.social, #JackCrimmins, @rebeccafoust.bsky.social & #KathleenMcClung Hosted by #LawrenceTjernell Sun, Feb 2 at 3pm PST #SausalitoBooksbytheBay, 100 Bay Street, Sausalito www.sausalitobooksbythebay.com/2025-events/poetry-reading

Birthright citizenship is “as close to a national self-definition as we have; it is our legal DNA,” David W. Blight writes. “One cannot overstate the gravity of Trump’s proposed action, nor the historical ignorance on which it stands.”

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

If you are in Sausalito next week, take a brief break from the madness and come hear some authors read their phenomenal poetry.

Reading on the water on Sunday, February 2 at 3pm PST w/ @sianessa.bsky.social, #JackCrimmins & #KathleenMcClung at #SausalitoBooksbytheBay, hosted by #LawrenceTjernell of #LongshipPress. Books for sale following the reading. 🌊 More details: www.sausalitobooksbythebay.com/2025-events/...

#SaturdayNightSpecial presents: Mirrors on Saturday, January 25 at 6pm PT. Join us #online for an evening of free #literaryperformance and #openmic readings featuring @rebeccafoust.bsky.social and #BiancaAlyssaPérez, hosted by #HollieHardy. Sign up for the open mic: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“The Silence" was written after the #January6 Insurrection, first published in #OntheSeawall by Editor @ronslate.bsky.social. The poem is from my new #chapbook from #BackbonePress, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR. backbonepress.org/titles/you-a... All proceeds go to #WeHealthClinic in MN.

"Shine & Blur" is from my new #chapbook from #BackbonePress, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, probing the parallels between #GeorgeOrwell 's totalitarian #dystopia and America’s #political landscape. Order: backbonepress.org/titles/you-a... All proceeds go to #WeHealthClinic in MN.

Congratulations to contributor Rebecca Foust, whose chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: LOVE POEMS was released by Backbone Press in October!

My new book examines our emerging political landscape against George Orwell’s dystopia, asking whether love can be an effective act of resistance against totalitarianism. I'd honestly hoped it would be mooted by the election, but--here we are. Available for $10.00 at backbonepress.org/catalog/

consume little one, for tommorow we conquer the world