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Today's Featured Poet: Bret Shepard is from Alaska. His collection of poems Absent Here was awarded AWP’s 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was published as part of the Pitt Poetry Series.

Today's Featured Poem: "Evening Traffic" by Bret Shepard, from Absent Here, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (@pittpoetry). Read here:

Profile: "Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise." (Smithsonian) #pdnews

Today's Featured Poet: Lee Ann Roripaugh’s fifth volume of poetry, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), was named a “Best Book of 2019” by the New York Public Library, selected as a poetry Finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, among other honors.

Today's Featured Poem: "#meteorology" by Lee Ann Roripaugh (@artichokeheart), from #stringofbeads, published by Diode Editions (@DiodeEditions). Read here:

Report: "A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost, written in 1918 and published for the first time in The New Yorker's Anniversary Issue." (New Yorker) #pdnews

Announcement: 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner, and finalists announced. (CGU) #pdnews

Today's Featured Poet: Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010), The Real Horse(University of Arizona Press, 2018), and Moon Mirrored Indivisible (University of Chicago Press, 2025).

Report: "On Monday, February 3, Governor Maura Healey signed an Executive Order creating the position of Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." (Somerville Times) #pdnews

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Today's Feature: On this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Language as Form, Farid Matuk writes on his poem “The Moon in Cancer.” Read here:

RT @CarolynHembree: Delighted to see "Ruptures" from @MsStefanieKirby 's FRUITFUL, which I selected for the 2023 @driftwoodpress Adrift cha…

Today’s Featured Poet: Stefanie Kirby is the author of Fruitful (Driftwood Press, 2024), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest; Remainder, forthcoming from Bull City Press; and Opening, forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press.

Today's Feature: "Ruptures" by Stefanie Kirby by (@MsStefanieKirby), from Fruitful, published by Driftwood Press (@driftwoodpress). Read here:

Today's Featured Poet: Morgan Võ (b. 1989) is a poet and librarian concerned with resonance, contingency, difficulty understanding, and the presence of the dead among the living. He is the author of The Selkie (The Song Cave, 2024).

Today's Featured Poem: "Earth Falls into Heaven" by Morgan Võ, from The Selkie, published by The Song Cave (@thesongcave). Read here:

Profile: "I would find some very beautiful poems brought to me by people who didn’t understand themselves to be poets. That was one of the delightful parts of the role." (Emerson Today) #pdnews

Today's Featured Poet: Luke Johnson is the author of Quiver (Texas Review Press), a finalist for the Jake Adam York Award, The Vassar Miller Prize, and The Levis Award; A Slow Indwelling (Harbor Editions); and Distributary (Texas Review Press 2025).

Essay: "What is Hell, these days? 'New and Collected Hell', a book-length poem by Shane McCrae, is an audacious effort to stage a tour of the underworld in an almost painfully post-millennial context and vernacular." (New Yorker) #pdnews

RT @Lukesrant: A hoop poem for boys & boyhood & time’s disruption of that. Of loss & longing & pain. S/O to @Poetry_Daily for the feature.…