March 10 Reading Is Second Event in Spring Visiting Writers Program
(Long Island, NY) Poet Rebecca Foust will read from her collected works at Farmingdale State College on Thursday, March 10. The reading – the second event in the spring Visiting Writers Program – will be held in the University Club in Knapp Hall at 11 a.m. The public is invited and the event is free.
Rebecca Foust, Poet. Photo Credit: Farmingdale State College.
Foust has published two books of poems: All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, which won the 2008 Many Mountains Moving Book Prize; and God, Seed, which won the 2010 Foreword Book of the Year Award. New poems are in current or forthcoming issues of Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Indiana Review,and other journals.
Foust received an MFA from Warren Wilson in 2010, and was the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell Colony and the Frost Place in 2014.She was a runner-up for the Visiting Writers Program’s Paumanok Poetry Award in 2014.
Farmingdale’s Visiting Writers Program has featured readings by more than 150 American and international authors. The program highlights the importance of literature to education and culture. Its annual Paumanok Poetry Award is an international award judged by faculty in Farmingdale’s English/Humanities department.
Farmingdale State College continues to prepare students with the education, skills, and critical thinking needed to meet the challenges of tomorrow. As the largest of SUNY’s colleges of technology (with over 8,700 students), Farmingdale equips students with the resources and knowledge sought by today’s emerging industries. Offering bachelor and associate programs, Farmingdale will soon offer its first graduate degree. At Farmingdale, students also have abundant opportunities in experiential learning—internships, clinical training, and guided research—that provide practical instruction and personal growth. Small, personalized classes, a residence hall with suite-style living, a lush 380-acre campus undergoing major renovation, and a highly successful NCAA Division III athletics program with modern facilities make Farmingdale State College one of the fastest-growing colleges in the region. In addition, in the 2015 U.S. News & World Report’s section titled Best Regional Colleges in the North, Farmingdale is ranked #11. Also in that category, FSC is #3 in the LEAST Student Debt Load at Graduation. For more information, contact Kathryn Coley at 631-420-2400 or kathryn.coley@farmingdale.edu. Look on our website www.farmingdale.edu. Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/farmingdale.
