About the Residency

Since 1977, The Frost Place has housed a resident poet during the summer at Robert Frost’s former home in Franconia, NH.

The Dartmouth Poet in Residence program at The Frost Place is a month-long residency in poet Robert Frost’s former farmhouse, which sits on a quiet north-country lane with a spectacular view of the White Mountains, and serves as a museum and center for poetry and the arts. The program began in 1977, and has been sponsored by Dartmouth College since 2012.

The residency begins July 1 and includes an award of $2,000 from Dartmouth College. The recipient of the Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place will have an opportunity to give a series of public readings across the region, including at Dartmouth College and The Frost Place. There are no other specific obligations. We hope that the residency offers space and time for significant poetic work.

Accommodations are spartan but comfortable. The Frost Place Museum is open to the public during afternoon hours, but the resident poet has sole use of non-public rooms of the house.

Previous recipients of this residency include Mark Cox, Christopher Gilbert, Rigoberto González, Mark Halliday, Robert Hass, Major Jackson, Laura Kasischke, Cleopatra Mathis, William Matthews, Katha Pollitt, Mary Ruefle, and Luci Tapahonso. See the complete list here.

The aim of this program is to select a poet who is at an artistic and personal crossroads, comparable to that faced by Robert Frost when he moved to Franconia in 1915, when he was not yet known to a broad public.

To be eligible, applicants must have published at least one full-length collection of poetry at the time of submission. Nominations were made by Patricia Smith in 2024, with final selection with TFP’s Dartmouth Liaison, Professor Vievee Francis. In 2025, we’ve tapped Eduardo C. Corral to make the nomination, with our Dartmouth Liason, Professor Vievee Francis, making the final selection.

There is no application process at this time.