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• Patricia Smith, former Frost Place guest faculty at both the Poetry Seminar and Conference in Poetry & Teaching, won the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry for her book, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner, September 2025). This year’s finalists included Gabrielle Calvorcorese, TFP’s former director for the Conference on Poetry, and our 2016 Bull City Press Chapbook Fellow, Tiana Clark! Congratulations to all!
• Nathan McLain, former Frost Place Fellow and faculty member, has been awarded a 2026 fellowship at MacDowell.
• Carlene M. Gadapee, longtime friend of TFP, will release her second book, Relearning the Body (Finishing Line Press, May 2026).
• Meg Kearney, longtime friend of TFP, has released Cardiac Thrill, a heroic crown of sonnets (Green Linden Press, 2025).
• Paula Bohince, our 2012 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence, released A Violence (Pittsburgh Press, October 2025).
• Dartmouth College, sponsor of the Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place since 2012, has launched the Literary Arts Bridge in Spring 2025. TFP’s Dartmouth Liaison, Professor Vievee Francis, helped to spearhead the development of the new space and its innovative programming.
• Jessica Jacobs, our 2023 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence, was named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
• Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly, edited by David Baker and Michael Collier, will soon be released (WW Norton, August 2025). We are fortunate to have had Stanley Plumly as our 1991 poet-in-residence, and lucky to have Michael Collier serve on TFP’s Advisory Board.
• Janice N. Harrington, faculty for TFP’s 2024 Poetry Seminar, has been inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. Her book Yard Show won 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.
• Patrick Donnelly, TFP Program Director, released Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, March 2025).
• 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.
• Yuki Tanaka, 2018 TFP Chapbook Fellow, published Chronicle of Drifting, (Copper Cannon Press, April 2025).
• 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.”
• 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, released a heroic crown, Cardiac Thrill (Green Linden Press, September 2025).
• 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).
• 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”
• Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, TFP Conference on Poetry alum, published his debut collection, Cowboy Park (Wisconsin Press, November 2024), which received the 2024 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the 2025 Texas Institute of Letters Literary Award and the 2025 Lammy Award for LGBTQ+.
• 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.

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