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!
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.
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