“A Summer of Footprints”
with Rev. Jeanne Foster, Vicki Wolf, and Brian Shaw
On this morning I will share with you not so much a sermon as a story–a story about my father,
my cat, and my first church and the footprints they have left with me. It is a story of honoring, of
love, and of loss. – Rev. Dr. Jeanne Foster, Ph.D.
Rev. Dr. Jeanne Foster, Professor Emerita Saint Mary College of California, is a
UnitarianUniversalist minister who has spoken in pulpits as wide-ranging as London, New
Orleans, and San Francisco. She studied at Starr King, was ordained by the Monterey church,
and was minister of the UU Fellowship in Modesto. She earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate
Theological Union in the interdisciplinary area of Religion, Literature, and the Arts. A poet and
translator, she studied with James Arlington Wright and co-translated with Alan Williamson The
Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi, which won the Northern California Book
Award for Poetry in Translation. She has published four books of poetry, the most recent
being Your Form Became My Own. Poet, Rodney Jones, writes, her “gift is to witness again and
again the timeless in a single glimpse.” Ascoltando una conchiglia, her selected poems translated
into Italian, is scheduled for publication this Fall by Editor Molesini,Venice. Former Poet-in-
Residence Tulane University, she is a recipient of the QRL Poetry Award, MacDowell, New York
State CAPS, Saint Lawrence, and Lannan Foundation grants. Her passions are ballroom dancing
and Tuscany, and, in particular, ballroom dancing in Tuscany.
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