Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Maybe-Bird (The Song Cave, 2022), and served as the associate editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (W. W. Norton, 2020). She is the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, she lives in San Francisco.
Poetry
Summer 2023
Aquarium Glass
When our colony of streaming astronauts adrift in undulation became wind-filled sails beneath the manta’s flight, we gathered our boats to watch the sea anemone’s solitary polyps morph into the […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
Triptych
I. Sound We returned as if to the surface of the earth we raged — slumped rockpiles’ threadbare tarps choking the pipes & rusted upon arrival. The infection they said was […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2021
From “The Maybe-Bird”
4 If it were easy to leave the body in a breath, as smoke leaves the cupped flame, rounds itself into a crown and escapes. Today I fear both the […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
Walking in the Redwoods with My Mother
Sequoia semperverins, she reads from the musty guidebook. Resting on a log, under dogwood we listen for the rattle of the salamander, roots of red snow plants drawing sugars from […]
May/June 2017
Paradise; Pilot
Paradise We carried the swifts in wheelbarrow loads from factory windows, chimneys. Lit our fires with peat, our backs to the murmuring forest. After the rain, dust motes. Ghosts in […]