Richard Foerster

Leah Umansky

Richard Foerster

Richard Foerster’s honors include the “Discovery”/The Nation Award, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships. His eighth book, Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems (Tiger Bark Press, 2019), received the 2020 Poetry by the Sea Book Award. His new collection is With Little Light and Sometimes None at All (Littoral Books, 2023). Recent poems appear in Bennington Review, 32 Poems, Jabberwock Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. He lives in Eliot, Maine.

Leah Umansky

Leah Umansky is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, OF TYRANT, forthcoming with The Word Works in April 2024. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011.  Her creative work can be found in such places as The New York Times,  The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today, POETRY,  and American Poetry Review.  Her new hybrid-memoir, DELICATE MACHINE,  is an exploration of womanhood, hope, and heart in the face of grief and a global pandemic. She can be found at  www.leahumansky.com or @leah.umansky on IG.