| Frost Day July 5, 2009, 2:00 pm |
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Conference on Poetry and Teaching June 28 – July 2, 2009 |
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Frost Place Advanced Seminar August 2 – 7, 2009 |
| Frost Place Intensive Workshop August 3 – 6, 2009 |
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| Note: The Festival and Young Poets conferences will not be held in 2009. Over the coming year, we will be redesigning these programs to be rejuvenated in 2010. | |
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Frost Day
Held each year in early July, this is an annual celebration of Robert Frost established by official act of New Hampshire Governor Hugh Gallen.
In 2009, Frost Day will be held Sunday July 5, at 2:00 pm.
The public is invited to hear storyteller extraordinaire Willem Lange, followed by Resident Poet Rigoberto González, who will give a reading. Refreshments and good cheer.
10th Annual Conference on Poetry and Teaching
June 28 – July 2, 2009
featuring conference director Baron Wormser along with faculty poets Charlotte Gordon, Geof Hewitt, Dawn Potter, and Elizabeth Powell.
Teacher Ellen Hamilton at the 2007 Poetry and Teaching Conference
A unique opportunity for classroom teachers to work closely with their peers and a team of illustrious poets who have expertise and enthusiasm for sharing poetry with young people. An immersion in poetry that’s both practical and inspirational . . .
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11th Annual Frost Place Advanced Seminar
August 2 – 7, 2009
2008 Seminar faculty Andrea Hollander Budy, David Trinidad, and Jeanne Marie Beaumont
An intensive gathering for experienced writers, exploring how the poetry of the past can guide and challenge contemporary writers.
Featuring conference director Jeanne Marie Beaumont along with faculty poets Martha Collins and Jeffrey Harrison, with guest poet Susan Thomas.
Tuition: $975, with a deposit of $400 due upon acceptance and the balance due by May 15, 2009. Tuition includes six dinners and four lunches.
To apply: Send three poems, a one-page cover letter with brief biographical note,
and $25 application fee payable to The Frost Place to: Jeanne Marie Beaumont, 120 West 70th Street, # 2D, New York NY 10023-4444. Applications reviewed December 1, 2008 — May 15, 2009.
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Frost Place Intensive Workshop
August 3 – 6, 2009
Explore new ways of revising your poems and generating new ones. You will experience 15 hours of poetry workshops with two instructors over three days, in a group limited to eight participants. Featuring workshop director Martha Rhodes along with poet Ellen Doré Watson.
Tuition: $550 with a deposit of $275 due upon acceptance and the balance due by July 1. Meals and lodging are not included.
To apply: send four poems (five pages max), and a one-page cover letter to Therese Reger, The Frost Place, P.O. Box 74, Franconia, NH 03580 by May 15.
In July and August, The Frost Place hosts a poet-in-residence who lives and writes in Frost's farmhouse, offering three public readings during the summer. The Trustees of The Frost Place have awarded the 2009 Resident Poet fellowship to Rigoberto González of New York City. Born in Bakersfield, California on July 18, 1970, and raised in Michoacán, Mexico, Rigoberto Gonzalez is the son and grandson of migrant farmworkers. His extended family migrated back to California in 1980 and returned to Mexico in 1992. González remained alone in the U.S. to complete his education. His childhood in Michoacán and difficult adolescence as an immigrant in California are chronicled in his coming of age memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa. During his college years he performed with various Baile Folklorico and Flamenco dance troupes. He earned a B.A. in Humanities and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of California, Riverside and graduate degrees from the University of California–Davis and Arizona State University. In 1997 he enrolled in a PhD program at the University of New Mexico, but dropped out a year later to join his partner in New York City. Since 2001, González has held teaching appointments at The New School, the University of Toledo, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Queens College/City University of New York. He currently teaches at the writing program of Rutgers University in Newark, where he is Associate Professor of English. He also holds a part-time appointment with the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. Rigoberto González has written two poetry books: So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a National Poetry Series selection, and Other Fugitives and Other Strangers; two children’s books: Soledad Sigh-Sighs and Antonio’s Card; and the novel Crossing Vines, winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Fiction Book of the Year Award, in addition to the memoir, Butterfly Boy. |
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