Ed FosterFounder of Talisman House, Publishers, and Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Ed Foster is one of the most important independent publishers of avant-garde poetry today. A former professor of history and associate dean for adminisration in the College of Arts and Letters at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Foster was also a Fulbright lecturer at Haceteppe University in Ankara, Turkey, and at the University of Istanbul. The recipient of numerous grants and awards from Columbia University, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is author of over forty books of poetry, criticism, biography, and literary history. Read More Read Less