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Edward Foster is a widely published critic, essayist and poet. He is the founding editor of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Talisman House, Publishers, and Jensen/Daniels, Publishers. He was also the president of Greenfield Distribution, Inc., a book distribution company located in New Hampshire and the poetry editor of MultiCultural Review, and is currently the president of Pioneer Valley Poetry Productions. He was for many years a professor of history and the associate dean for administration in the College of Arts and Letters at the Stevens Institute of Technology, a visiting professor at Drew University Graduate Faculty and at Beykent University (Istanbul), and a Fulbright lecturer at Haceteppe University in Ankara, Turkey, and at the University of Istanbul. The co-director of the Russian/American Cultural Exchange Program, he has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from Columbia University, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USIA arts program, the New Jersey Historical Commission, Choice, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, the Greve Foundation, the Fund for Poetry, the Trubar Foundation, the Romanian Cultural Instutute, and the Turkish Ministry of Culture. His poetry has been translated into, and published in, many languages, including single-author volumes in Slovenian, Romanian, and Russian. He has served on the Advisory Committee for the Middle East of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and the Fulbright Committee (scholarships) for Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey. For further information, see the Directory of American Scholars, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series, The Writers Directory, The International Writers and Authors Who's Who, and Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series. See also Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, ed. Shelley Andrews, Vol. 26; Olivier Brossard interviews Edward Foster," Double Change (2003) (online version: www.doublechange.com/issue3); several radio interviews archived at "Penn Sound" (http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/XCP.php) (2004-2016); Burt Kimmelman, ed., The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2005); John Olson, "Inner Light," Jacket Magazine (2006); Jeffrey Gray and James McCorkle, eds. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry; Terence Diggory, ed., Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets (2009); Aydogan Vatandaș, "Edward Foster: Over the years, Turkish writing has been an ongoing fascination," Today's Zaman (2012); Trish Crapo, “The Poet’s Poet,” Greenfield Recorder (2013); Rob Couteau, "A Conversation with the Poet, Publisher, and Literary Historian Edward Halsey Foster,"  http://www.tygersofwrath.com/EdwardHalseyFoster
Interview.htm (2016); Thomas Fink and Melissa Mantilla, "Exchange with Edward Foster on Sowing the Wind",  Dichtung Yammer, 
https://dichtungyammer.wordpress.com/2017/12/27/exchange-with-edward-foster-on-sowing-the-wind-marsh-hawk-p-2016/.


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