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Richard Foerster worked on the staff of the literary magazine Chelsea beginning in 1978 and served as its editor from 1994 to 2001. More recently, he was also founding editor of Chautauqua Literary Journal. A recipient of the Discovery/The Nation Award and Poetry’s Bess Hokin Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission, he is the author of six collections of poetry: Sudden Harbor and Patterns of Descent (both from Orchises Press); Trillium, Double Going, and The Burning of Troy (from BOA Editions); and Penetralia (from Texas Review Press, 2011). He lives in Cape Neddick, Maine, where he works as a freelance editor and typesetter.

Full Name

Richard Foerster

Locations

Monroe

Author's Timeline


1978

OTHER

Richard Foerster worked on the staff of the literary magazine Chelsea beginning in 1978 and served as its editor from 1994 to 2001.

1992

LITWORK

Sudden Harbor: Poems
Orchises Press.
978-0914061281.
Collection of poetry.

1993

LITWORK

Patterns of Descent: Poems
Orchises Press.
978-0914061366.
Collection of poetry.

1998

LITWORK

Trillium
BOA Editions, Rochester, New York.
978-1880238615.
Collection of poetry.

2002

LITWORK

Double Going
BOA Editions, Rochester, New York.
978-1929918171.
Collection of poetry.

2006

LITWORK

The Burning Of Troy
BOA Editions, Rochester, New York.
978-1929918836.
Collection of poetry.

2011

LITWORK

Penetralia
Texas Review Press.

Collection of poetry.

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