Sesshu Foster

Sesshu Foster (born April 5, 1957) is an American poet and novelist.

Career

Foster has taught composition and literature in East LA since 1985, and has also taught at the University of Iowa, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Jack Kerouac School's Summer Writing Program. [1] He was in residence at California State University, Los Angeles.[2]

Awards

Selected works
  • City Terrace Field Manual. Kaya/Muae. 1996. ISBN 978-1-885030-19-1.
  • Michelle T. Clinton; Sesshu Foster; Naomi Quinonez, eds. (July 1989). Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry. West End Press. ISBN 978-0-931122-52-1.
  • Atomik Aztex. City Lights Publishers. 2005. ISBN 978-0-87286-440-5.
  • American Loneliness: Selected Poems (Beyond Baroque, 2006)
  • World Ball Notebook. City Lights Publishers. 2008. ISBN 978-0-87286-467-2.

Anthologies
  • Cary Nelson, ed. (January 13, 2000). Anthology of Modern American Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512271-8.
  • Tina Chang; Nathalie Handal; Ravi Shankar, eds. (April 17, 2008). Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-33238-4.
  • State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. Wave books. September 2008. ISBN 978-1-933517-33-9.

References
  1. Profile at City Lights Bookstore
  2. http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/nfoster.php
  3. http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100958940&fa=description


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