Edward Foster’s recent books include Jack Spicer (1991),  
William Saroyan: A Study of The Short Fiction (1991), Understanding
the Beats (1992), The Space Between Her  Bed and Clock (1993),
The Understanding (1994), All Acts Are Simply Acts (1995), Understanding the Black Mountain
Poets (1995), Adrian as Song (1996), boy in the key of e
(1998), and Answerable to None: Berrigan, Bronk, and the
American Real (1999). The co-editor (with Leonard Schwartz
and Joseph Donahue) of Primary Trouble: An Anthology of
Contemporary Poetry (1996) and the editor of The White
Tomb: Selected Works of Stuart Merrill (1999) and Decadents,
Symbolists, and Aesthetes in America: Fin-de-Siecle
American Poetry (2000); he is co-editing with Joseph Donahue
The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative
American Poetry 1970-2000: Essays on the Revolution in
American Poetry and Poetics at the End of the Twentieth
Century. His interviews with contemporary poets are
collected in Postmodern Poetry Poetry and Poetics in a
New Millenium (2000.)
       Formerly the poetry editor of MultiCultural Review,
Foster is the founding editor of Talisman: A Journal of
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Talisman House,
Publishers, and Jensen/Daniels, Publishers. A professor
of English and American literature at the Stevens
Institute of Technology and former visiting professor
at Drew University Graduate Faculty, Foster was 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 various grants and awards
from Columbia University, the New Jersey Historical
Commission, Choice, the New Jersey State Council on
the Arts, the Society of Collegiate Journalists, the
Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the
Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
USIA arts program, the Greve Foundation, and the
Fund for Poetry.
   For further information, see the Directory of American
Scholars, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors:
New Revision Series, The Writers Directory, and The
International Writers and Authors Who’s Who. See also
“Poetry Editor at Work: And the Beat Goes On” (At Random,1994);
Matt Corry, “An Interview with Ed Foster” (PsaLm  151, 1995);
“Editors on Poetry” (interview), Journal of the Poetry Society of
America (1997); and “Edward Foster,” Contemporary Authors
Autobiography Series, ed. Shelley Andrews (1997).