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Awards:

• Lorna Stevens and I are thrilled to announce that God, Seed won the 2011 Foreword Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Two Golds were awarded this year, and the other went to Kelli Russell Agodon for her book, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room.

• God, Seed also received first place in the Poetry and Art categories in this year’s National Indie Excellence award and was named a “must read” book in the 2011 Mass Book Award. All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song won a local book prize—The San Francisco Book Festival Award—and was shortlisted for the Paterson Poetry Prize (won by President Obama’s inaugural poet, Elizabeth Alexander), the Foreword BOTY Award, and the NIEA.

  “Gratitude” was awarded a 2011 International Publication Prize by Atlanta Review.

  New poems are in the current issue of The Ledge and are forthcoming in The Hudson Review, Mezzo Cammin, Natural Bridge, Notre Dame Review, Sewanee Review, and others.

New website poems:
Poetry Daily, “Father’s Day Race,” 12/11/10. Verse Daily,  http://www.versedaily.org/   “Teleology,” 9/12/10, and “What You Work For,” 10/12/10, “Perennial,” 10/28/10.

New Radio Show:
BookMark, NPR affiliate WPSU, is featuring God, Seed for National Poetry Month on April 20, 2011, http://wpsu.org/radio/single_entry/LL-3107/bookmark

Other News:
The Mar/Apr issue of The Humanist featured two pages (18-19) from God, Seed and has posted an online version here: http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/11_mar_apr/Foust.html

The Cortland Review used Lorna Steven’s watercolor “Perennial” from God, Seed for the cover of Issue 50, March 2011, http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/50/index.html?ref=home

Feature about God, Seed in Tikkun DailyTikkun Daily, 2/13/11, http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/02/13/god-seed-poetry-and-art-about-the-natural-world/#more-19671

 “Dark Card” featured in The Stanford Magazine, Jan/Feb 2010, (Jim McCool) “Holding Out Hope,” http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2011/janfeb/dept/first.html

Readings:
2011 readings in Sacramento, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Wellfleet—see Readings Page.