Background
Linda Foster was born on the 29th of May, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, the daughter of John and Helen (Kumor) Nemec.
1972
1700 Fulton St E, Grand Rapids, MI 49506, United States
Linda Nemec received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree (magnum cum laude) from Aquinas College in 1972.
1979
123 Pitkin Rd, Plainfield, VT 05667, United States
Linda Nemec obtained a Master of Fine Arts from Goddard College in 1979.
2017
2660 28th Street SE Grand Rapids, MI 49512, United States
Well-known poets, Daneen Wardrop, Miriam Pederson, Hedy Habra, Linda Nemec Foster, join forces as Fearsome Foursome for a poetry reading at Schuler.
2019
Linda Nemec Foster, Tami Haaland, Lauren Camp, Shirley Camia
Linda Nemec Foster
(Divided into four parts and employing an impressive varie...)
Divided into four parts and employing an impressive variety of poetic styles and forms, Amber Necklace from Gdansk moves from lyric childhood memories and descriptions of immigrant life to prose poems that interweave the mythic and historic past with the present.
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2001
(This is a historic collection, the first of its kind for ...)
This is a historic collection, the first of its kind for the Grand Rapids area of Western Michigan, a city with a long history of ancient mound builders, fishers striding in the great rapids of the Owashtanong (Grand) River, trappers, traders, lumbermen, the great logjam of 1883, the heritage of furniture making and its many factories. Song of the Owashtanong includes poetry that is firmly rooted in the people, soil and rivers of the area, as well as work that ranges from Bucharest and Gdansk to the coasts of Ireland, St. Petersburg, the battlefields of the Civil War and the swamps of Vietnam.
https://www.amazon.com/Owashtanong-Grand-Rapids-Poetry-Century/dp/1564391353/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(This is a gripping tale in poems of a young girl's desper...)
This is a gripping tale in poems of a young girl's desperate search for guidance in a world turned upside down by family and economic upheaval. Raised in a ramshackle cottage on the shores of Lake Michigan, Lykretia takes refuge in her beloved lake in the face of her grandmother's illness and her mother's eager attempts to sell their home following her recent divorce.
https://www.amazon.com/Lake-Michigan-Mermaid-Poems-Writers/dp/0814342205
2018
Linda Foster was born on the 29th of May, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, the daughter of John and Helen (Kumor) Nemec.
Foster moved to Michigan to attend Aquinas College in 1968, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree (magnum cum laude) in 1972. In 1977 Foster was accepted into the Master of Fine Arts program at Goddard College in Vermont. There, Foster studied under such noted poets and writers as Lisel Mueller, Stephen Dobyns, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Heather McHugh, Donald Hall, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, John Irving, Louise Gluck, and Robert Hass. She graduated in 1979 with the Board of Directors’ highest commendation and received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree.
Linda Foster began her career as a social demographer at Center for Environmental Study, Grand Rapids in 1971-74. Soon after that, she served as a clerk at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Detroit until 1977.
From 1980-2002, she taught poetry workshops throughout the state of Michigan for the Creative-Writers-in-Schools Program which was coordinated by the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. She has also taught poetry and writing classes as a lecturer in art at Ferris State University in 1984 and as a professor of English at Aquinas College in 1999.
In addition, Foster has given readings and been a guest lecturer in poetry at numerous colleges and universities such as the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, Hope College, Calvin College, Loyola University (Chicago), Lake County Community College (Illinois), University of Missouri-Kansas City (where she was interviewed on the NPR program New Letters on the Air), and Grand Rapids Community College.
Linda Foster served as a member of the board of directors at Mecosta County Council for the Humanities in 1982-85 and a member of the board of directors at Urban Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids in 1989-95. She also was a director of its literature programming from 1989 to 1996.
Foster began writing poetry in 1974 while living and working in Detroit. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry such as “A History of the Body” that was published in 1987, “A Modern Fairy Tale: The Baba Yaga Poems” in 1992, “Trying to Balance the Heart” in 1993, “Living in the Fire Nest” in 1996, “Contemplating the Heavens” in 2001, “Amber Necklace from Gdansk” in 2001, “Listen to the Landscape” in 2006, “Ten Songs from Bulgaria” in 2008, “Talking Diamonds” in 2009, “The Elusive Heroine: My Daughter Lost in Magritte” in 2018 and “The Lake Michigan Mermaid” in 2018.
Linda is the contributor of poetry to numerous periodicals, including Georgia Review, Nimrod, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, International Poetry Review, DoubleTake, and Mid-American Review. Translator, with Beata Kane, of works by Polish poet Ewa Parma for Artful Dodge, International Poetry Review, and Mr. Cognito and contributor of poems to anthologies.
(This is a historic collection, the first of its kind for ...)
2013(Divided into four parts and employing an impressive varie...)
2001(Mirroring the human response to the natural world, this b...)
2006(This is a gripping tale in poems of a young girl's desper...)
2018Linda Foster is a member of the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, National Writers' Union, National Writers' Voice (Metro Detroit), Detroit Women Writers, and Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts.
Linda is married to Anthony Jesse Foster. They have two children - Brian Jesse and Ellen Kathleen.