Thomas C. Foster

Thomas C. Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Reading the Silver Screen, and How to Read Poetry Like a Professor, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he taught classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as creative writing and freelance writing. He is also the author of several books on 20th-century British and Irish literature and poetry.

Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

"You cannot let worry win."

September 16, 2022 By Thomas C. Foster

Maybe Poets Are, in Fact, Aliens

On Craig Raine and the Martian School of Poetry

April 11, 2018 By Thomas C. Foster

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