Sesshu Foster

Bio
Sesshu Foster is the author of Atomik Aztex (City Lights Publishing, 2005), City Terrace Field Manual (finalist for a PEN Center West Poetry Prize), and co-editor with Naomi Quinonez and Michelle Clinton of Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry, which won the American Book Award. He has taught composition and literature in East LA since 1985, and has also taught at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Work

 * "City Terrace Field Manual" (1996)
 * "Atomik Aztex" (2005)
 * "American Loneliness: Selected Poems" (2006)
 * "World Ball Notebook" (2008)

Links

 * Additional Work by Sesshu Foster:
 * Sesshu Foster's City Lights Profile:

Sesshu Foster will be visiting UCSC on October 14, 2009 at 7 pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall (Hum 206).