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Hi Terri,
Do you know if the tribes in southern LA have authority over their waterways and marshes? Could they employ their own bioremediation products to protect the marshes, without needing approval from federal authorities or the USCG? I have some thoughts/ideas but need to know if the tribes possess the ability to employ their own methods.
Thanks,
Jen
Dear Editor:
I am writing to ask whether your journal might consider a review of or feature about my and Lorna Stevens’s new book, God, Seed: Poetry and Art About the Natural World, to be released by Tebot Bach Press this fall. God, Seed begins with delight in nature and then moves through winter and blight, bearing witness to the environmental desecrations of the last century. The poems and art conclude in perennial spring, but with a deeper appreciation for nature and an acceptance of responsibility for its stewardship. The book is grounded in love for the natural landscape here in northern California as well as the east coast where Lorna and I both spent our childhoods. Its poems and images have earned awards and distinctions including a 2008 Eco-Lit Prize (Knock Journal), Pushcart nominations, wide publication in literary and environmental journals, and inclusion in two art exhibitions, and feature as an online chapbook in the fall 2009 issue of Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments at http://www.terrain.org/poetry/24/god_seed/ . Our publisher’s advisory board includes Jane Hirshfield and David St. John. William Kittredge, well known environmental writer and producer of the film A River Runs Through It, has endorsed our book, whose other endorsers include Bay Area artist William Wiley and Deirdre Lawrence, Curator of Artists’ Books at the Brooklyn Museum, as well as poets Susan Terris and Troy Jollimore.
I received my MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College this past January and my first full length book, All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song won the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize and was released in April 2010. Dark Card and Mom’s Canoe won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prizes in 2007 and in 2008 and have been widely reviewed, most recently by Wayne Chapman in the current issue of The South Carolina Review but also in The Hudson Review, Poetry Daily, The Woman’s Review of Books The Pedestal Magazine, Compulsive Reader, Rattle and others. To read the reviews, please visit my website, http://www.rebeccafoust.com.
My collaborator, Lorna Stevens, received her MFA from Columbia University. Her book Huia was acquired by the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library. Huia: A Story of Extinction, Lorna Stevens’s first book, is a limited edition Artist’s Book that was acquired by the Brooklyn Museum and The New York Public Library. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums, including The Fuller Craft Museum, the di Rosa Preserve, the Bedford Gallery and the Numakunai Sculpture Garden in Japan. The Boston Globe, Artweek, The San Francisco Chronicle and the Marin Independent Journal have reviewed her work.
I’ve attached the cover of the book as well as a few sample pages. If you are interested in receiving an advance review copy, please send your mailing address. Lorna and I have pledged half our royalties to the David Brower Environmental Center in Berkeley, so we really appreciate your considering this request as a way to help us to get out the word about our book. Thanks very much!
Sincerely,
Rebecca Foust
Taking this opportunity to say thank-you for all the work you are doing regarding Mother Earth. Your site rocks. Look forward to reading this site more regularly in 2010.
Hi,
I love what you do and how you write. Is there a newsfeed from you to other sites? Also do you write for other people? If yes, what are your rates?
Regards