### February Featured Poet: Zachary Daniel Zach is a librarian and poet living in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been published in *Stone Circle Review* as well as in *The Pierian* Issues 1.9 and 1.10. He cites James Wright's odes to the midwest, the dark surrealism of Charles Simic, and the precise associations of Wallace Stevens as major influences. In his own words: “[Zach] first discovered an interest in poetry when attending a reading at Butler University with a friend enrolled in their MFA program. Since then, the world of poetry has taken him by storm, and he can conceive of no other way to live his life. His poetry is inspired by a fascination with the natural world, literature as an endless wellspring of meaning, and a metaphysics of the commonplace.”