How do the poems of the past influence, guide, and challenge contemporary writers?
How can you draw lessons from our poetic predecessors to deepen and strengthen your own poetry?
Spend five days with a select community of poets exploring your artistic work in the context of our enormous and complex literary tradition. Discover how that tradition can provide both models and provocations to widen your thinking about your own efforts.
Learn from an exciting and experienced faculty how poets choose, absorb, and respond to poetic influences.
Enjoy delicious group meals and spirited conversation surrounded by the gorgeous White Mountains of northern New Hampshire.
Take part in readings in the famous barn at the Frost Place, where Robert Frost lived full-time between 1915 and 1920 then spent summers through 1938.
The Seminar schedule features a daily morning talk and discussion exploring aspects of craft and technique, with a close look at the work of our poetic forebears; an afternoon workshop of participants’ poems; and an evening reading, some of these readings by faculty poets and others featuring participants.
This is a unique opportunity for dedicated poets to delve intensely into the poetic process. Seminar participants will have their poems-in-progress given generous and focused attention and will be invited to think in new ways about what can be accomplished in revision.
Enrollment is strictly limited to 16 participants. Priority will be given to participants in previous Frost Place programs, including the Conference on Poetry and Teaching, the Festival and Conference on Poetry, or the Frost Place Seminar, with a limited number of spaces available for qualified first-time Frost Place visitors.
Enthusiastic responses from previous Frost Place Seminar participants:
"A whole week of honest and stimulating conversation about poetry. . . . Both faculty and participants were unfailingly generous, welcoming, friendly. Critique sessions were highly engaging, insightful, and intelligent."
"The lectures were all extremely interesting, informative and smart."
"I most liked having three so different voices leading the workshop, so there was a three-dimensional feel to the discussion."
"A very affirming experience, which calls me back to the work I have to do once I'm home."
Applications accepted from December 1, 2007.
Application fee: $25.00, due with submission of three poems and a one-page cover letter that includes a brief biographical note and an explanation of why the poet would like to take part in the seminar.
Tuition: $800, with a deposit of $350 due upon acceptance and the balance due by May 1, 2008.
Meals: $140 for four lunches and six dinners as well as hors d’oeuvres and snacks.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Director of the Frost Place Seminar, is the author of two books of poetry, Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004) and Placebo Effects (Norton, 1997), selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series. With Claudia Carlson, she co-edited the anthology The Poets’ Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003), and for seven years she was co-editor of the literary magazine American Letters & Commentary. Her poems have been published in magazines such as Boston Review, DoubleTake, The Nation, Poetry, Verse, Witness, and World Literature Today, and in several anthologies including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews and The Norton Introduction to Literature. Her poem “Afraid So” was made by Jay Rosenblatt into a short film that has been shown at numerous festivals, where it has garnered several awards. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught at The Frost Place and Rutgers University. She currently teaches at The Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and in the Stonecoast MFA program.
Andrea Hollander Budy was born of American parents in Berlin, Germany, raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado. Since 1977 she has lived in the Ozark Mountains near Mountain View, Arkansas, in a house her husband Todd designed and built. Together with their son Brooke, they restored and worked as owner-innkeepers of the Wildflower Bed & Breakfast for fifteen years. Since 1991 Andrea has been the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College. She is the author of Woman in the Painting, The Other Life, and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. She has published more than two hundred poems and essays in literary journals, and Sou’wester published a special feature on her, including an interview, in its spring 2003 issue. Her work also appears in more than thirty anthologies and textbooks, and she has been interviewed on National Public Radio and had poems featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac and by former U.S. Poet Laureates Billy Collins in his Poetry 180 Internet course for high school students, Rita Dove in her Washington Post column, “Poet’s Choice,” and Ted Kooser in his syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.”
David Trinidad most recent book of poems is The Late Show (Turtle Point Press, 2007), which follows Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (Turtle Point, 2003), Plasticville (Turtle Point, 2000, finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets), Answer Song (High Risk/Serpent’s Tail, 1994), Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981–1988 (Amethyst Press, 1991), and Pavane (Sherwood Press, 1981). David currently teaches poetry at Columbia College in Chicago, where he co-edits the journal Court Green. Previously he was a member of the Core Poetry Faculty of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at The New School, and he has also taught at Rutgers, Princeton, and Antioch (Los Angeles). He has edited Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (with Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton), Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (with Maxine Scates), and Powerless, the selected poems of Tim Dlugos. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harper’s and The Paris Review, and have been included in anthologies including Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970, High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings, The Best American Poetry, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Originally from Los Angeles, Trinidad has been called “a master of the postmodern pop-culture sublime.”
On Friday, August 8, there will be a special guest lecture by poet Rachel Hadas.
Rachel Hadas was born in New York City. She began to study classics at Radcliffe College then transferred to Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in 1969. She received her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University. After leaving Harvard, Hadas spent four years in Greece, an experience that influenced much of her poetry, especially her first two collections, Starting from Troy (1975) and Slow Transparency (1983). She has published fifteen volumes of poetry, as well as anthologies, translations — for example, from Seneca’s Oedipus (Johns Hopkins Roman Drama Series, 1994) and Euripedes’s Helen (Penn Greek Drama Series, 1997), and essays, including a critical study, Form, Cycle, Infinity: Landscape Imagery in the Poetry of Robert Frost & George Seferis (1985). She is the recipient of many honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant in poetry, and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Since 1981 she has taught English at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
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