Richard Foerster

Richard Foerster (born October 29, 1949) is an American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

His most recent poetry collection is Penetralia (Texas Review Press, 2011), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Poetry, The Nation, The New England Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review. His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maine Arts Commission, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

He was founding editor of Chautauqua Literary Journal from 2003 until his departure from the journal in 2007 and was a long-time editor at Chelsea Magazine, beginning in 1978. He became editor in 1994, and served in that position until 2001. Foerster received a B.A. in English Literature from Fordham College and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Virginia. He lives in York, Maine.