See what TFP’s community of poets has been working on!
- Patrick Donnelly, TFP Program Director, will release Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, March 2025).
- Janice N. Harrington, faculty for TFP’s 2024 Poetry Seminar, has been inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. Her book Yard Show was also named a finalist for the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (BOA Editions, October 2024).
- Gary Miranda, TFP’s 1979 poet-in-residence, has a new podcast called “Wake the Happy Words.” It consists of nine episodes of me reading from my collected poems and sharing some of the experiences behind them, including his stay at the Frost Place. The podcast is available on YouTube and Spotify.
- Rachel Richardson, TFP board member, has published her third book, Smother (W.W. Norton, February 2025). From this collection, “Domestic“ was published in The Atlantic.
- Tiana Clark, 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow, published her new collection Scorched Earth (Simon & Schuster, March 2025). See her New York Times article, “Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Was Radically Political, if You Knew Where to Look.”
- Yuki Tanaka, 2018 TFP Chapbook Fellow, will publish Chronicle of Drifting, (Copper Cannon Press, April 2025).
- Vievee Francis, Professor at Dartmouth College and TFP’s Dartmouth Liaison, composed the libretto for the opera, Ritual of Breath, which took stage at NYC’s Lincoln Center in July 2024. Premiering at Dartmouth in 2022, the opera aims to shine light on Eric Garner’s death at the hands of police and the broader problem of police violence in the United States.
- Meg Kearney, TFP Advisory Board member, will release her new heroic crown, Cardiac Thrill (Green Linden Press, September 2025). Save the date for a virtual launch on 9/4! Several of the sonnets have been published/accepted for publication this year, including in Vox Populi, Post Road, and Ploughshares.
- Saúl Hernández, 2024 finalist for TFP’s Dartmouth poet-in-residence, was awarded a 2025 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Carlene Gadapee, Poetry Seminar alum, former TFP docent, board member, and educational consultant, has published What To Keep (Finishing Line Press, February 2025).
- Janice N. Harrington, 2024 Poetry Seminar faculty member, published Yard Show (BOA Editions, October 2024).
- Rebecca Foust, 2014 TFP poet-in-residence and current advisory board member, released You Are Now Leaving The American Sector (Backbone Press, October 2024).
- Joann Deiudicibus, Poetry Seminar alum, released Lost & Found (Finishing Line Press, 2025).
- Ali Beheler, 2024 Poetry Seminar alum, had a big year!
- Winner of the Milton J. Kessler Memorial Prize at Harpur Palate Literary Review: “Self-Portrait, or, what do you call the part of me that is”–This poem was workshopped in the seminar, so thank you, Patrick and participants!
- Finalist in the Milton J. Kessler Memorial Prize: “like Orpheus, led you :: like Orpheus, turned on you”
- Published in ballast journal in January: “Form at the Edge of Air (lying by your side: A Burning Sonnet Crown”
- Published in Tupelo Quarterly in January: “Persistence”
- Rose McLarney, TFP’s 2016 poet-in-residence, published her fourth collection of poetry, Colorfast (February 2024, Penguin House).
- Ae Hee Lee, 2021 TFP Chapbook Fellow, published Asterism (Tupelo Press, February 2024), winner of Tupelo Press Dorset Prize.
- Sarah Audsley, Assistant to the Director of TFP 2012-2015, released her first book, Landlock X (Texas A&M University Press, 2023).
- Major Jackson, TFP’s 2004 poet-in-residence, is selected to host a daily poetry podcast, The Slowdown.
- Mary Ruefle, TFP’s poet-in-residence in 1999, has published many collections of poetry. The most recent of which, Dunce, was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.
- Robert Haas, TFP’s 1978 poet-in-residence, served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, TFP Conference on Poetry alumn, published his debut collection, Cowboy Park (Wisconsin Press, November 2024), which went on to receive the 2024 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and the 2025 Texas Institue of Letters Literary Award!
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