Reviewed by: Diane Sahms-Guarnieri Linda Nemec Foster reiterates this real and imagined theme of yearning and self-discovery throughout the four sections of Amber Necklace from Gdańsk. . In poem after poem of sculptured landscapes of Old World and New, of Poland (before WW I) to USA of today, Linda Nemec Foster yearns for wholeness, yet […]
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A special thanks to: Tony & Linda Nemec Foster, Deborah Meijer’s Rimbaud Fund at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, the Grace Hauenstein Library, Steven Barclay Agency, & Blue Flower Arts, all who have participated, as well as the Contemporary Writers Committee. For more […]
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Dancing with My Sister for Deborah We’re not talking those crazy Polish weddings in Cleveland, where we both learned how to dance, clutching each other’s sweaty hands, galloping to the Beer Barrel Polka, and trying not to bump into Uncle Johnnie and his whirling Chicago Hop. This is now, tonight, in a smoky bar in […]
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(Cervena Barva Press, W. Somerville, MA, 2008) Linda Nemec Foster is an American poet of Polish ancestry, who has published nine collections of poetry and lives in Michigan. Ten Songs From Bulgaria (2008) is her eighth collection, a chapbook with poems inspired by Bulgarian artist Jacko Vassilev’s black and white photography from the (post-)communist epoch(s) and which […]
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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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Review of Amber Necklace from Gdansk in online review journal, North of Oxford
/in Books, Poems, Review /by AdministratorReviewed by: Diane Sahms-Guarnieri Linda Nemec Foster reiterates this real and imagined theme of yearning and self-discovery throughout the four sections of Amber Necklace from Gdańsk. . In poem after poem of sculptured landscapes of Old World and New, of Poland (before WW I) to USA of today, Linda Nemec Foster yearns for wholeness, yet […]
Aquinas College Contemporary Writers Series
/in News /by AdministratorA special thanks to: Tony & Linda Nemec Foster, Deborah Meijer’s Rimbaud Fund at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, the Grace Hauenstein Library, Steven Barclay Agency, & Blue Flower Arts, all who have participated, as well as the Contemporary Writers Committee. For more […]
Linda Nemec Foster’s poem, “Dancing with My Sister,” is featured on the Cuyahoga Public Library’s (Cleveland, Ohio) website for National Poetry Month, 2016.
/in Featured Work, Poems /by AdministratorDancing with My Sister for Deborah We’re not talking those crazy Polish weddings in Cleveland, where we both learned how to dance, clutching each other’s sweaty hands, galloping to the Beer Barrel Polka, and trying not to bump into Uncle Johnnie and his whirling Chicago Hop. This is now, tonight, in a smoky bar in […]
Book review of Ten Songs from Bulgaria by Romanian poet, scholar and translator Monica Manolachi.
/in Featured Work, Poems, Review /by Administrator(Cervena Barva Press, W. Somerville, MA, 2008) Linda Nemec Foster is an American poet of Polish ancestry, who has published nine collections of poetry and lives in Michigan. Ten Songs From Bulgaria (2008) is her eighth collection, a chapbook with poems inspired by Bulgarian artist Jacko Vassilev’s black and white photography from the (post-)communist epoch(s) and which […]
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 […]