During the Conference on Poetry and Teaching
June 30 – July 4, 2008
Readings at 7:30 pm:
Monday, June 30: Shara McCallum
Tuesday, July 1: Mekeel McBride
Wednesday, July 2: Alice B. Fogel
Thursday, July 3: J. D. Scrimgeour
Frost Day
Sunday, July 6, at 2:00 pm: James Hoch and Sydney Lea reading,
and a celebration of Dave Schaffer, founder of The Frost Place
Frost Place Benefit Reading
Saturday, July 19, at 2:00 pm: featuring poets Patrick Donnelly, Ellen Dudley, Daniel Hall, Henry Lyman, Cleopatra Mathis, Martha Rhodes, and Ellen Dore Watson, with introductions by Jim Schley, executive director of The Frost Place. Pruyne Lecture Hall at Amherst College, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, Massachusetts. Directions to Amherst College and a map of the campus are available on the Amherst College website, http://www.amherst.edu
During the Festival and Conference on Poetry
July 27 – August 2, 2008
Readings at 8:00 pm:
Sunday, July 27: James Hoch and Cook Fellow from Dartmouth (to be announced)
Monday, July 28: Maxine Kumin and Linda Susan Jackson
Tuesday, July 29: Jean Valentine and Jim Schley
Thursday, July 31: Susan Howe and Ilya Kaminsky
Friday, August 1: Baron Wormser and Patrick Donnelly
Saturday, August 2: Cornelius Eady and Ellen Doré Watson
Special event, at 3:00 pm:
Wednesday, July 30: Festival Participants Reading
During the Frost Place Seminar
August 3 – 8, 2008
Readings at 8:00 pm:
Monday, August 4: Favorite Poems reading
Tuesday, August 5: David Trinidad
Wednesday, August 6: Jeanne Marie Beaumont, James Hoch, and Jim Schley
Thursday, August 7: Andrea Hollander Budy
Friday, August 8: Seminar Participants Reading
James Hoch, Frost Place Resident Poet, and Jim Schley
Wednesday, August 27, at 7:30 pm at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 1171 Main Street, St. Johnsbury, Vermont. For information, call (603) 823–5510 or
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