Tonya Foster, Author at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

Tonya Foster (Tonya Foster)

One of the rising stars on the New York scene, Tonya Foster is the author of poetry, fiction, and essays that have been published in a variety of journals such as nocturnes, Callaloo, Traffic, Lungfull, DrumVoices, the Hat, Gulf Coast, etc. Tonya was an Art/Poetry columnist for the Poetry Project Newsletter and has published non-fiction essays in NY Arts Magazine, NYFA Quarterly and The Poetry Project Newsletter. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies: Free Radicals: American Poets before their First Books, (NY: Subpress, 2004), edited by Jordan Davis and Sarah Manguso; and POeP! (NY: Rattapallax Press, 2001), edited by Edwin Torres and Anselm Berrigan, one of the first eBook literary journals dedicated to innovative poetry. Author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (2002), a Belladonna chapbook, and co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing Through Visual Art (Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2002), she is currently completing A Mathematics of Chaos – a cross-genre, multi-media piece about New Orleans, home and home-buoys; Monkey Talk – an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, surveillance, and need; and A History of the Bitch, a collection of poems.

from “The Burning of Paper Instead of Children” 2. To imagine a time of silence or few words a time of chemistry and music ...

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Tonya Foster: “Adrienne Rich’s work stands as testament to a profoundly engaged refusal to sit quietly.”