The Talent of Knowing by Linda Nemec Foster “My life hasn’t run out yet.” — Keith Richards I’m watching Mick Jagger’s jagged face—as big as a five-story tenement building—at an IMAX theater showing Scorsese’s film, Shine a Light. And I get tired just watching this guy— older than me—methodically strut around the stage and dry […]
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Eliminating the Horizon —for Tom Andrews Who needs boundaries? If your eyes fail to imagine where the earth ends and the sky begins, think of a place bereft of lines: the blue depths of a stream flowing like hair that will never be combed. Deep indigo of nothing but fluid memory ebbing around blossoms of white […]
Season 14, Episode 3 features Linda Nemec Foster, founder of the Aquinas College Contemporary Writers Series. Linda discusses this year’s Series and the upcoming 20th anniversary celebration. To learn more, visit aquinas.edu/cw. Originally Published by GRCMC, click here to view article.
Bulgarian photography and Michigan poetry inspire an album “Cry of Freedom” is an album by Ann Arbor musician Laszlo Slomovits, but it’s not your ordinary record. The album is actually a collection of poems by Grand Rapids poet and writer Linda Nemec Foster that has been set to music. Foster’s poetry that is featured on “Cry of Freedom” […]
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10 Questions for Linda Nemec Foster Linda Nemec Foster graduated magna cum laude from Aquinas College and received her M.F.A. from Goddard College. From 1980-2002, she taught poetry workshops for the Michigan Creative-Writers-in-Schools Program. Foster is the author of nine collections of poetry: A History of the Body (Coffee House Press, 1987); A Modern Fairy Tale: The Baba […]
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Linda Nemec Foster blogs about the P&W supported event at UDetroit Cafe. Author of nine collections of poetry, including Talking Diamonds (finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year) and Amber Necklace from Gdansk (finalist for the Ohio Book Award). Linda Nemec Foster’s work has been published in the Georgia Review, Nimrod, North American Review, […]
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The library has over 450 archival collections documenting the people and organizations of the Greater Grand Rapids area. Listed below are finding aids for each collection, containing an inventory of its contents and information about the person or organization that produced the collection. Our archival collections are constantly expanding as we receive new acquisitions and […]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 11:30-12:45 | Website session: Rod Torreson with students, Thru the 3rd Eye; David Cope on professional websites and use of online sources. Location: 108 Sneden Exploration of Thru the 3rd Eye, Rod Torreson’s laureate project with students and former students: the website as a way of making connections, developing interviewing and review […]
This compelling collaboration began in 2006 when award-winning poet Linda Nemec Foster first viewed the work of photographer Jacko Vassilev. His portfolio, “The Dance of Zlatio Zlatev,” appeared in Harper’s Magazine and gave visual testimony to the impoverished and marginalized people of Eastern Europe. Vassilev’s haunting portraits inspired Foster to write a sequence of poems, […]
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Linda Nemec Foster’s poem featured in Duende, the literary journal of Goddard College.
/in Featured Work /by AdministratorThe Talent of Knowing by Linda Nemec Foster “My life hasn’t run out yet.” — Keith Richards I’m watching Mick Jagger’s jagged face—as big as a five-story tenement building—at an IMAX theater showing Scorsese’s film, Shine a Light. And I get tired just watching this guy— older than me—methodically strut around the stage and dry […]
Linda’s poems featured on The Fox Chase Review
/in Featured Work, Poems /by AdministratorOriginally Published by The Fox Chase Review, click here to view article.
Linda Nemec Foster featured on the website, A Year of Being Here
/in Featured Work, Poems /by AdministratorEliminating the Horizon —for Tom Andrews Who needs boundaries? If your eyes fail to imagine where the earth ends and the sky begins, think of a place bereft of lines: the blue depths of a stream flowing like hair that will never be combed. Deep indigo of nothing but fluid memory ebbing around blossoms of white […]
NPO Showcase – Aquinas College’s Contemporary Writers Series
/in Interview, News /by AdministratorSeason 14, Episode 3 features Linda Nemec Foster, founder of the Aquinas College Contemporary Writers Series. Linda discusses this year’s Series and the upcoming 20th anniversary celebration. To learn more, visit aquinas.edu/cw. Originally Published by GRCMC, click here to view article.
Linda Nemec Foster Interviewed on Michigan Public Radio
/in Feature, Uncategorized /by AdministratorBulgarian photography and Michigan poetry inspire an album “Cry of Freedom” is an album by Ann Arbor musician Laszlo Slomovits, but it’s not your ordinary record. The album is actually a collection of poems by Grand Rapids poet and writer Linda Nemec Foster that has been set to music. Foster’s poetry that is featured on “Cry of Freedom” […]
Interview with Linda Nemec Foster for Philadelphia’s online journal, The Fox Chase Review
/in Interview /by Administrator10 Questions for Linda Nemec Foster Linda Nemec Foster graduated magna cum laude from Aquinas College and received her M.F.A. from Goddard College. From 1980-2002, she taught poetry workshops for the Michigan Creative-Writers-in-Schools Program. Foster is the author of nine collections of poetry: A History of the Body (Coffee House Press, 1987); A Modern Fairy Tale: The Baba […]
Linda Nemec Foster- Despite Everything You’re Heard About the Motor City, Detroit’s Poetry Community Flourishes
/in Books, News /by AdministratorLinda Nemec Foster blogs about the P&W supported event at UDetroit Cafe. Author of nine collections of poetry, including Talking Diamonds (finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year) and Amber Necklace from Gdansk (finalist for the Ohio Book Award). Linda Nemec Foster’s work has been published in the Georgia Review, Nimrod, North American Review, […]
Grand Rapids Public Library Archival Collections
/in Uncategorized /by AdministratorThe library has over 450 archival collections documenting the people and organizations of the Greater Grand Rapids area. Listed below are finding aids for each collection, containing an inventory of its contents and information about the person or organization that produced the collection. Our archival collections are constantly expanding as we receive new acquisitions and […]
Grand Rapids Poets’ Conference
/in News, Reading /by AdministratorWEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 11:30-12:45 | Website session: Rod Torreson with students, Thru the 3rd Eye; David Cope on professional websites and use of online sources. Location: 108 Sneden Exploration of Thru the 3rd Eye, Rod Torreson’s laureate project with students and former students: the website as a way of making connections, developing interviewing and review […]
Website to order Cry of Freedom, Linda’s new CD with musician Laszlo Slomovits
/in CD /by AdministratorThis compelling collaboration began in 2006 when award-winning poet Linda Nemec Foster first viewed the work of photographer Jacko Vassilev. His portfolio, “The Dance of Zlatio Zlatev,” appeared in Harper’s Magazine and gave visual testimony to the impoverished and marginalized people of Eastern Europe. Vassilev’s haunting portraits inspired Foster to write a sequence of poems, […]