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Today's poem is "The Golden Country"
from You Are Leaving the American Sector

Backbone Press

Rebecca Foust's books include YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems (Backbone Press 2024) and ONLY (Four Way Books 2022). Her poems won the 2024 James Dickey Prize and the Telluride Institute's Fischer prize, and in recent years, the New Ohio Review, Pablo Neruda, James Hearst, and Poetry International prizes. Other recognitions include fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee, and a Marin County Poet Laureateship.

Other poems by Rebecca Foust in Verse Daily:
August 25, 2022:   "At Motel 6 the Night DeeDee Died" "Smell of mothball and sweat and gin..."
December 21, 2021:   "and for a time we lived" "like gods      we said water & there..."
January 6, 2021:   "Before the Formal Feeling Comes" "This is before the formal feeling comes..."
August 18, 2016:   "The Quest" "The quest was a metaphor, of course..."
July 14 2015:   "Vernal" "Some things we believe cannot be redeemed...."
August 19, 2012:   "Stork" "Vows broken like bird bones. You spanned abyss intention..."
October 28, 2010:   "Perennial" "When you've gone, it won't matter to the musk rose..."
October 12, 2010:   "What You Work For" "Heft and hank of rope, halyard..."
September 12, 2010:   "Teleology" "In the seed lies all that it can ever be..."

Other poems on the web by Rebecca Foust:
"The Silence"
Two poems
"Pictograph"
Two poems
"Divine Apparitions"
"Funicular"
"Compline"
"Guernica"
"Contradance"
Four poems
"Last Bison Gone"
"Dynamic Response of Multi-Layered Soil Media in the Frequency Domain"
"Rebecca Foust"
Two poems
"Mom's Canoe"
Three poems
"Abeyance"
"New Ars Poetica"
"eat first / poetry later"
Three poems

Rebecca Foust's Website.



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