4th Annual
YOUNG POETS CONFERENCE
April 25–27, 2008
Plunge into the world of poetry,
for a weekend in a historic New Hampshire inn,
featuring faculty poets Alice B. Fogel and Rick Agran.
Tuition: $300 for students or teachers, includes meals and lodging.
$75 day-rate for teachers attending just Saturday (includes lunch).
Applications must by postmarked by April 11, 2008.
Each spring, The Frost Place Young Poets Conference (or “YPC”) brings together eighth-grade and high school students to write, read and talk about poetry, with lots of time to work on your own poems.
Students from New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey have spent an exhilarating weekend together with superb faculty poets. As one student described the experience,
“I realized many other kids my age care about words and how they can be put together. In high school, my friends are interested in my other hobbies — but never that one. I’ll hold on to the concepts ‘write to discover something about yourself you didn’t know when you started’ and ‘include your audience.’ I’ve learned that when you’re surprised, the reader is, too.”
With writing prompts and workshops run by a team of poets who love working with younger writers, the Young Poets Conference offers you a chance to explore your poetic voice while getting to know other writers in a unique and beautiful setting. We’ll be staying together at the Homestead Inn in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, which has been managed by one family since 1802, and we’ll take a field trip to the nearby house and farm where poet Robert Frost and his family lived between 1915 and 1938.
Teacher chaperones are also invited for special workshops focusing on techniques for teaching poetry. Space is limited to 20 student participants and 5 teachers.
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Application: To apply, send the PDF application form and a brief letter to the address below, describing your interest in poetry and noting your current year in school, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. Also enclose three of your own poems and a letter of recommendation from a teacher. Applications should be postmarked by April 11, 2008.
Tuition/Costs: Tuition for the conference is $300 for students or teachers, which includes all meals, snacks, and lodging. We offer a $75 day-rate for teachers attending just Saturday (includes lunch).
Send applications to Jim Schley at The Frost Place,
P.O. Box 74, Franconia NH 03580
For more information: call (603) 823–5510
Faculty:
Rick Agran, currently of Plymouth, New Hampshire, grew up in Brookline, New Hampshire, on Lancey Brook, and he says he has loved water ever since, in all its guises, with all its voices. For a number of years, he taught aspiring visual artists to write, as chair of the Liberal Arts Department at New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire. He now has a new job as program officer with the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Author of two published books, Crow Milk (poems, from Oyster River Press, 1997) and Pumpkin Shivaree (a children’s book, from Handprint Press, 2003), he’s at work on another children’s book and also a collection of poems with the working title A Short History of Longing. He writes for Artscope and The Wire on the fine arts and theatre beats.
Alice B. Fogel is the author of three books of poetry — Elemental and I Love This Dark World (Zoland, 1993 and 1996), and the new Be That Empty: Apologia for Air (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007) — and her poems have appeared many journals and such anthologies as Best American Poetry and Robert Hass’s Poet’s Choice. Awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she teaches writing, literature, and other arts for all ages and she is co-founder of the annual N.H. Young Writers Conference, a frequent artist-in-the-schools, and a custom clothier. Her wedding gown made of twenty-two recycled men's shirts won Grand Prize in Ithaca's Re-fashion Show.
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