Richard Foerster has published seven collections. His literary honors include the “Discovery”/ The Nation Award, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize, a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Fellowship, and two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, some of which are Kenyon Review, Triquarterly, Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, Southern Review, Poetry, and Best American Poetry. He lives in Cape Neddick.