Thank you, editors of #SwampPink, for including my #poem "Love after Divorce" in your #newissue. An honor to share pages with poets like #NikkyBeer and @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Read it at pink.charleston.edu/issue-26 #collegeofcharleston #loveafterdivorce #april2026issue

Grateful to Jayne McPherson at #MarinPoetryCenter & Anji Brenner at #MillValleyLibrary for hosting last Thursday’s reading with @lucillelangday.bsky.social & #ElizabethHerron. Wonderful readers, and wow—what a great turnout! Thanks also to Gabrielle Rilleau & others for the support.

Thanks to the #editors of @chicagoqreview.bsky.social for including my #poem “Fear” in their #Spring2026 issue. My aim was to place my Dad’s experience as a GI among the liberators of Dachau in April 1945 in the context of what is happening in our country now, 81 years later. Thanks for reading!

Save the date! Thursday, May 7 at 6:30pm #MPCReadingSeries featuring Rebecca Foust, @lucillelangday.bsky.social & #ElizabethHerron #MillValleyLibrary (Creekside Room), 375 Throckmorton Ave Registration required: millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/14980387 #marinpoetrycenter #lucillelangday

THIS SUNDAY, April 26, 3pm
 @poetryflash.bsky.social presents: Rebecca Foust & @dianefrankpoet.bsky.social #ArtHouseGallery & Cultural Center 
2905 Shattuck Avenue, #Berkeley (2 blocks north of Ashby BART) Refreshments, #Free Details: poetryflash.org/calendar/?t=... #poetryflash #booklaunch

12th Annual #PoetryWorldSeries Friday, April 17th, 7pm at #MillValleyLibrary Adults and high school students only. Pre-game refreshments starting at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. Waitlist line opens up at 6:45pm on a first come, first served basis. millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/15807112

Introducing our 3 out of 6 players (aka poets) #BrandonLogans, #DMSpratley and #DoraPrieto for the #PoetryWorldSeries (Mill Valley Edition) on Friday, April 17 at 7pm (doors 6:30pm) at #MillValleyPublicLibrary! Register here: millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/15807112 #baseball #poetry

Introducing our 3 out of 6 players (aka poets) @jasonbayani.bsky.social, @josephkidney.bsky.social, and #KatiePeterson for the #PoetryWorldSeries (Mill Valley Edition) on Friday, April 17 at 7pm (doors 6:30pm) at #MillValleyPublicLibrary! Register here: millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/15807112

Introducing our emcee @danielhandler.bsky.social and umpires (aka judges) #JosephMillar and @danushalameris.bsky.social for the #PoetryWorldSeries (Mill Valley Edition) on Friday, April 17 at 7pm (doors 6:30pm) at #MillValleyPublicLibrary! Register here: millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/15807112

Saturday, April 18, 6 pm
 #BookLaunch Party and Reading at #ReboundBookstore 1611 4th St, San Rafael

 @dianefrankpoet.bsky.social & Rebecca Foust
 feature with 7 #BlueLightPress Poets
 To purchase Prayer to the Invisible: shorturl.at/CgMpw To purchase my book: shorturl.at/rpcBb #marincountypoets

Poetry World Series - Mill Valley Library Edition Friday, April 17 | Doors 6:30pm Featuring @danielhandler.bsky.social, D.M. Spratley, Joe Kidney, Katie Peterson, @jasonbayani.bsky.social, Dora Prieto, Brandon Logans, Joseph Millar & Danusha Lameris. millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/15807112

Women of a Certain Age Read Poems on Sex & Death w/ stellar poets @kimaddonizio.bsky.social, #ZeinaHashemBeck, #SusanBrowne, @danushalameris.bsky.social & #JuliaLevine Wednesday, March 11 at 6:30-8pm Creekside Room at #MillValleyLibrary RSVP at millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/15997298

Join us this Sat, Feb 28th at 3pm at @bookpassage.bsky.social (SF Ferry Building) for the launch of @julialevine.bsky.social's new book, Lullaby for the Sixth Extinction ( #WolfsonPress) and the launch of the new edition of my book, You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems ( #BlueLightPress)!

Julia B. Levine with Rebecca Foust Book Passage (SF Ferry Building Store)
 Saturday, February 28th, 2026 • 3:00 PM Join me at #BookPassage for a celebration of @julialevine.bsky.social's new book, Lullaby for the Sixth Extinction ( #WolfsonPress 2025)! www.bookpassage.com/event/julia-...

This Friday, February 6 at 6:00pm PT I’ll be joining authors #JenniferLagier and @lightspeak.bsky.social for the #BlueLightPress New Book Showcase via Zoom - please join us! RSVP to bluelightpress@aol.com to get the link.

Please join us on February 1st at 6:00 p.m for the first @bazaarcafesf.bsky.social Writers Salon of 2026, featuring the poetry and fiction of @judeberman.bsky.social, @vidajames.bsky.social, @kathleenwheaton.bsky.social, and myself, hosted by Peter Kline. 5927 California Street, San Francisco.

Save the date: Reading on Sunday, February 1 at 6-8:30pm at @bazaarcafesf.bsky.social’s monthly #WritersSalon with @judeberman.bsky.social, @vidajames.bsky.social, and @kathleenwheaton.bsky.social, hosted by Peter Kline. 5927 California Street, San Francisco. See you there!

I'm honored to have my poem chosen as @ruthawad.bsky.social's Spring 2026 Poetry Pick for the #SouthernIndianaReview, edited by #RonMitchell. "The Link: is from the 2nd edition of my new #chapbook, available soon from #BlueLightPress! Read full poem at www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awad-poetry-picks/the-link

Reading tomorrow (Monday, January 5th) at 6pm PDT with #JeanneWagner, hosted by #ShawnaLeahSwetech of #RivertownPoets and #AqusCafé. Via Zoom - open mic follows Link to join: us06web.zoom.us/j/6508887879 Passcode: 2241991

SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 22: Rebecca Foust Rebecca Foust’s new chapbook, You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems, was just released by Backbone Press. New poems are in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. rebeccafoust.com Instagram: @rebecca.foust.52

Thank you to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and to the production team of #TheSlowdown for featuring "Amalgam" on its daily podcast today at www.slowdownshow.org and to #Plume and editor #DanielLawless for first publishing the poem. What a treat, to hear your work read by a pro in a real sound studio!

The Slowdown

The Slowdown podcast hosted by Maggie Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry

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Delighted to see this generous and smart new review by @susangunter.bsky.social in the new issue of #HarvardReview, www.harvardreview.org/book-review/... The review covers my book, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, releasing soon with #BlueLightPress, edited by @dianefrankpoet.bsky.social.

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.

Tahoma Literary Review@tahomareview.bsky.social · last yr.

Our featured writer this week is Rebecca Foust. Foust won the 2024 James Dickey Prize and the 2023 New Ohio Review Prize and is the author of Only (Four Way Books 2023) and Shine & Blur, from Backbone Press. Read her poem, “Plague,” in our latest #TLR28, tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

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