16 Facts About Sesshu Foster

Sesshu Foster was born on April 5,1957 and is an American poet and novelist.

Sesshu Foster is a Japanese-American poet of white and Nisei descent.

Sesshu Foster grew up on Los Angeles' East Side and came of age in the primarily Chicano neighborhood of City Terrace, where he was influenced by local community organizing and political artmaking.

Sesshu Foster met his wife, an East LA Chicana, on a high school science trip and just kept “following Dolores, ” says his cousin Tom Ogawa.

In college, Sesshu Foster stayed tied to Bravo while bouncing from one University of California campus to another.

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Sesshu Foster's jobs were as varied: In Palo Alto, he was a strip-club bouncer; in Colorado, a summer firefighter — the best gig he's ever had, he says.

Sesshu Foster's craft is inseparable from his day job and family: “None of the work I've done would have been done without our collectivity, ” he says.

Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East LA since 1985, and has taught at the University of Iowa, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Jack Kerouac School's Summer Writing Program.

Sesshu Foster was in residence at California State University, Los Angeles.

Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L A for 30 years.

Sesshu Foster holds an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he taught; he has been an instructor at the California Institute for the Arts and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Sesshu Foster's work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems.

Sesshu Foster became a fire lookout and “I wound up fighting forest fires in Colorado and Wyoming.

In “review of 'made in l a ' at the ucla hammer museum, ” Foster brings his critiquing gaze to seethe and mourn the omission of artists of color in an exhibit lauded by critics.

Apart from his father, Sesshu Foster utilizes post cards and postcard poems to his friends and loved ones, like Lisa Chen a fellow writer who met Sesshu Foster in Iowa.

Sesshu Foster describes the role of postcard poems in this collection as: “Postcards written with ocotillo and yucca.