Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD

"The mind is master, but the flesh is boss"—Poet, George & Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry @SFSU @SFSUcw, @CreativeCap, @RadInstitute, kin

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

Check out this event. Hope to see you there! https://t.co/bA6LhJ9YZ1

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@ellezakelley That's a word, Professor Kelley!

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@seminewblack @naacpimageaward Congratulations, Evie!

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

what is the deal with Bank of America?

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@JoyelleMcS love them love them and then love them some more. love is work.

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@akasomeguy @fsgbooks @ladykiptak Congratulations!! Looking forward to reading your newest collection!

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@UcheNdukaPoet Happy Birthday, Uche! May it be joyful and full of generative peace. And may there be many many more joyful turns around the sun.

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

Word on the weaponization of wwtears:
See this Instagram video by @yabablay https://t.co/PQmtVI0bdZ

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@craigsperez Congratulations 🍾!!!

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

Please share widely

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Please lend your support to this beautiful, capacious human being, this extraordinary poet, one of the youngest members of the 1960's Umbra Writers' Workshop. Share this widely. We have to hold each other up. That's how we get through.

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@roughband Congratulations!!! Beautiful news!!!

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Please lend your support to this beautiful, capacious human being, this extraordinary poet, one of the youngest members of the 1960's Umbra Writers' Workshop. Share this widely. We have to hold each other up. That's how we get through.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Journalists: the Jacksonville mass murder was not racially motivated violence, it was RACIST violence. We must be specific and direct with our language.

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@jstheater Certainly learned it in school in NOLA.

[MacDowell @MacDowell1907]

Poets and writers of fiction and non-fiction: Apply for a Spring/Summer 2024 residency at MacDowell!

The application deadline is September 10 at 11:59PM ET. Learn more: https://t.co/fstn5OMta0

Pictured is poet and writer @SwarmofHighBees (10) in our Star Studio in July 2013.

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@MacDowell1907 had a remarkable time @ MacDowell1907

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@michaelharriot Brilliant effective storytelling and then some!!! Thank you, Michael Harriot!

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@BradRichard4 Congratulations!!! Wonderful news!!

[Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD @SwarmofHighBees]

@cpearson116 @notcapnamerica we're laughing to keep from dying, and to keep from igniting