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San Francisco Center For the Book

February 25 - February 25, 2010

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375 Rhode Island Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Join us for a joint presentation, a reading with Rebecca Foust and artist Lorna Stevens focused on their new project God Seed that collects poems about the environment and its seasons. At present, the book consists of 60 pages of original poems and watercolor drawings, expected to be published in 2010. Three poems from the book (printed by Richard Lang of San Francisco Electric Works) were in the Spring 2009 Art of the Book Show at the Donna Seager Gallery in San Rafael. Foust will read poems and Stevens will discuss the creation of art - both will discuss the collaborative process and will include a slide show that demonstrates the evolution of some of the images and how they were matched with the poems. Bios: Rebecca Foust is a Bay Area poet whose University press published books Dark Card (Texas Review Press 2008) and Mom's Canoe (TRP 2009) won the 2007 and 2008 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Awards. Both books include poems nominated for the 2008 Pushcart Award and poems previously published in literary journals such as Margie, North American Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Dark Card won the 2008 London Book Festival Award for Poetry and has been endorsed by nationally known poets Molly Peacock, Robert Phillips and Barry Spacks. More than 25 magazines and newspapers have published the reviews or features listed at www.rebeccafoust.com . Mom's Canoe was endorsed by Robin Becker, Susan Griffin and Barry Spacks. Since its release in February 2009 Mom's Canoe has been or will be reviewed in more than a dozen journals and was featured in the March/April Issue of The Woman's Review of Books. Foust has a BA in English from Smith College and a JD from Stanford Law School; she is in her third semester in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Local artist Lorna Stevens designed the covers for Foust's books, and she and Foust are collaborating on a full length book, God Seed, that collects poems about the environment and its seasons.