Brett Foster
Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 2005
Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University, 1997-1999
M.A., Boston University, 1996
B.J., University of Missouri, 1995
A.B., University of Missouri, 1995
About Brett Foster
Dr. Foster's interests include Creative Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Traditions of Lyric Poetry, Translation & Imitation, Poetics, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Religion and Literature, Early Modern Travel Literature, Italian Renaissance Literature, Anglo-Italian Texts, and Classical Influence in the Renaissance and in Modern Poetry.
Publications
Books
Fall Run Road (Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2012).
- winner of the 2011 Open Chapbook Prize
Shakespeare’s Life. “Backgrounds to Shakespeare” reference series (New York: Chelsea House, 2012).
The Garbage Eater (Evanston: Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011).
- finalist for 2012 Drake University Emerging Writer Award
- selected for "Debut Poets" feature in Poets & Writers
Shakespeare Through the Ages: The Sonnets (New York: Infobase, 2009) – edited volume for a reference series that summarizes Shakespeare’s works, contextualizes by century their critical reception, and reprints influential criticism [editor].
Shakespeare Through the Ages: Hamlet (New York: Infobase, 2008) [editor].
Rome. "Literary Places" series (New York: Infobase, 2005) [co-author].
Poems
Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Anglican Theological Review, Antler, Arion, Ascent, Assisi, Beacon Street Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Books & Culture, Bostonia, California Quarterly, Catapult, Cellpoems, The Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, The City, Columbia, Comment, The Common, Comstock Review, Confrontation, Crab Orchard Review, The Cresset, Curator, Dogwood, Everyday Poems, Fare Forward, First Things, 4Humanities, Hudson Review, IMAGE, Iron Horse Literary Review, Levure litteraire, Literary Imagination, Literature and Belief, Liturgical Credo, Marco Polo, Mars Hill Review, Measure, Midwestern Gothic, The New Criterion, New Madrid, The Other Journal, Pleiades, PNReview, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, Poetry East, Poetry International, Radix, Raritan, Relief, RHINO, Rock & Sling, Ruminate, Saint Ann’s Review, Saint Katherine Review, Salamander, Santa Clara Review, Seattle Review, Second Nature, Sewanee Theological Review, Shenandoah, Sin Fronteras - Writers Without Borders, Southwest Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Stonework, Subtropics, Technoculture, Tenth Muse, Terrain, Theodate, Trajectory, Water~Stone Review, Windhover, Wunderkammer, Verbatim, Vineyards, Yale Review, and other journals, as well as in the anthologies And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century, American Religious Poems (Library of America), Best New Poets, Imago Dei, Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry (Yale University Press), The Gulf Stream: Poems of the Gulf Coast, and St. Peter's B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints.
Translations of poetry have appeared in Arion, Atlanta Review, Dappled Things, Eleven Eleven, Evansville Review, Green Mountains Review, Hampden-Sidney Poetry Review, Italian Poetry Review, Journal of Italian Translation, Literary Matters, Metamorphoses, Palimpsest, Partisan Review, Poems Bewitched and Haunted, Relief, RHINO, Saint Ann’s Review, Smartish Pace, Unsplendid, Yale Italian Poetry, and other journals.
Author's Shows
Questions & Answers
Callboard
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Did you see our latest news earlier in the week? Chitty flies again! We're thrilled to announce that rights to the full, 2-act version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are now available without restrictions for performances scheduled to take place before 31st December 2023. Applications for 2024 are currently restricted to those in venues of less than 500 seats. Apply today! www.mtishows.co.uk/chitty-chitty-bang-bang #chittychittybangbang #newrelease #trulyscrumptious
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Xanadu is now available for licensing! You have to believe we are magic... Xanadu is a moving, electrifying tale of endless fun that will keep audiences in stitches, while the original, legendary chart-topping tunes lift them out of their seats. Find out more: www.mtishows.co.uk/xanadu #xanadu #newshow #amateurtheatre #licensing #olivianewtonjohn #strangemagic
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Bravo to everyone at @_spotlight.theatre who went Into the Woods at Nottingham Arts Theatre earlier in the month. These photos look great! Photo credit: Martin Holtom. #intothewoods #nottingham #amateurtheatre #amdram
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A huge congratulations to everyone at @green_room_productions on their hugely successful production of Sunshine on Leith. We really would have walked 500 miles to grab a ticket. #sunshineonleith #pottersbar #amateurtheatre #wyllyotts
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As schools across the UK and Europe wind down for the Summer holidays we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate the incredible teachers everywhere who make musical theatre happen year after year. To those teachers we say: you are an inspiration! We had close to 100 of these incredible teachers take part in this years Junior Theatre Festival, so lets enjoy the special teacher number from that days awards ceremony. #teachers #jtf22 #musicaltheatre #schoolshow #inspiration #education #broadwayjr
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We love these production shots of Disneys The Little Mermaid JR from @pqanorthampton #merfolk #thelittlemermaidjr #performingarts #disney #broadwayjr
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Bravo to @curtaincallshrewsbury on their production of Roald Dahls Matilda the Musical JR. Theyre currently having the best time working on the show, and these wonderful photos prove it! Enjoy your final performances. #matildajr #broadwayjr #shrewsbury #roalddahl #youththeatre #maggots
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WHAT A PICTURE We'll definitely be sticking these in the family album A few snaps from @haslemereplayers dress rehearsal of KIPPS - The New Half a Sixpence Musical which runs at Haslemere Hall this week. Break a leg! #kipps #kippshalfasixpence #haslemere #haslemerehall #surreytheatre #surrey
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Do you love musicals and want to work at MTI? We're searching for a new Licensing Assistant / Receptionist. The successful candidate will be required to work from our newly refurbished office in London at 12-14 Mortimer Street, W1T 3JJ. The core duties/responsibilities will include: Reception duties: * answering a busy telephone switchboard * greeting all visitors to the office Amateur Licensing support: * show availability requests * answering basic enquiries both via phone and in email * general administrative support as required Professional Licensing support: * general enquiries * generation of invoices as per instructions from the Professional Licensing team * vetting of foreign language translations The successful candidate will have a keen interest in musical theatre (on or off stage) and have excellent administrative skills. For full details visit: https://www.mtishows.co.uk/.../job-vacancy-licensing... #vacancy #licensing #receptionist #job #musicals #opportunity
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JTF is making the news! @skynews @fyi_skykids came to Birmingham last month to share the power of jazz hands and spirit fingers with a wider audience. The JTF piece will air Saturday at 10:30 and 16:30 and then on Sunday at 10:30. We can't wait! Check out this sneak peak, which follows Timi from The British Theatre Academy. #jtf22 #news #jazzhands #broadwayjr
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