Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # The Frost Place A permanent home and museum for poets and poetry ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://frostplace.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Posts](https://frostplace.org/posts/) - [Amanda Gunn, 2025 Pardlo Fellow](https://frostplace.org/2025-pardlo-fellow-amanda-gunn/) - About Amanda Gunn Amanda Gunn’s debut poetry collection, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Raised in Connecticut, she worked as a medical copyeditor for 13 years before earning an MFA in poetry from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. She is the recipient of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, - [Online Workshops](https://frostplace.org/online-workshops/) - Saturday, January 25 | Blas Falconer | Turning Toward A Mystery What do we mean by the “poetic turn”? I think of it as a change of gears, a ship tacking on the water, any shift in the poem, rhetorical or formal, from description to reflection, from question to answer, from one Point of View - [2024 Gregory Pardlo Fellow, Jada Renée Allen](https://frostplace.org/2024-gregory-pardlo-fellow-jada-renee-allen/) - About Jada Renée Allen Jada Renée Allen is a writer, educator, & conjure woman living & working on U.S.-occupied O’odham Jewed, Akimel O’Odham, & Hohokam lands. A 2022 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest winner, Jada Renée is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, & support from Tin House, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, & VONA (Voices of Our Nations ## Pages - [The Frost Place](https://frostplace.org/) - The Frost Place is a permanent home and museum for poets and poetry. Visit Robert Frost's former farmhouse in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. - [Poetry Seminar](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-2025/) - About the Seminar As always, you’ll have access to instruction from our world-class faculty, focused attention on your work, and the vital exchanges of peers in workshop. Our goal is to support, refresh, and inspire you. Spend four days with a select community of poets exploring your artistic work in the context of a rich - [Online Poetry Craft Classes](https://frostplace.org/classes/) - Resisting Structure: Mastering the Prose Poem with John Sibley Williams Not flash fiction, not free verse, neither fiction, memoir, or nonfiction, the prose poem is both denser and more elastic than these forms. A prose poem defies the nature of formal poetry. Instead of being restrictive, the prose poem is permissive. Perhaps Arielle Goldberg summed - [Robert Frost Museum Hours & Admission](https://frostplace.org/museum-hours/) - The museum is currently open Thursday - Sunday from 11am to 4pm. The museum will be closed beginning Monday, August 10 to accommodate construction. We anticipate that the museum may be closed for the remainder of the 2026 season. We will update as more information becomes available. The quarter-mile poetry trail loop will be open to visitors - [Protecting Frost's Home for the Future](https://frostplace.org/protecting-frosts-home-for-the-future/) - The Frost Place Celebrates $130,000 Grant Award We are grateful to report that The Frost Place has received a $130,000 matching grant from New Hampshire’s Land Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP). We have begun our fundraising efforts to meet this match, which will allow us to replace the failing foundation in Robert Frost’s Franconia farmhouse. - [Online Reading Featuring the Winner and Finalists for the Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place 2026](https://frostplace.org/dpir-contest-reading-2026/) - Join us for an evening of poetry, featuring this year's winner, Adam Giannelli, and finalists James Davis May, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Sandra Beasley, for the Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place competition. Read more about the program here. Register About the Poets Adam Giannelli, 2026 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place Adam Giannelli is the author - [Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place](https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/) - The Search TFP's Next Resident Poet Applications will be accepted beginning October 15, 2026. To be eligible, applicants must have published at least one full-length collection of poetry at the time of submission. The aim of this program is to select a poet who is at an artistic and personal crossroads, comparable to that faced - [Sundays in the Barn with Bob](https://frostplace.org/sundays-in-the-barn-with-bob/) - 2026 Schedule Due to construction anticipated at The Frost Place, August events will be held at Iron Furnace Brewing. About our 2026 Guest Poets David Graham: David Graham retired in 2016 from teaching writing and literature at Ripon College, where he also hosted their Visiting Writers Series for twenty-eight years. He served on The Poets’ - [Robert Frost Day Celebration 2026](https://frostplace.org/robert-frost-day-celebration-2026/) - Celebrate NH's little-known state holiday, Robert Frost Day, at the Frost Place! Fifty years ago, the Town of Franconia purchased Robert Frost's former farmhouse to preserve this literary landmark, and the next summer, The Frost Place came to life as a historic house museum and center for poetry and the arts. Through the years, the - [Octavio R. González: 2026 Paul Monette Fellow](https://frostplace.org/2026-paul-monette-fellow-octavio-r-gonzalez/) - The Frost Place is pleased to announce that the inaugural Paul Monette Fellow at the Frost Place Poetry Seminar is Octavio R. González. About Octavio R. González Octavio R. González is a queer Dominican American poet and scholar who teaches at Wellesley College. He's published two books of poetry (Limerence, 2023; The Book of Ours, - [2026 Gregory Pardlo Fellow: Sydney Mayes](https://frostplace.org/2026-gregory-pardlo-fellow-sydney-mayes/) - The Frost Place is pleased to announce that the 2026 Gregory Pardlo Fellow at the Frost Place Poetry Seminar is Sydney Mayes. About Sydney Mayes Sydney Mayes is the 2026 FSG Fellow, winner of the 2025 Adrienne Rich Award and the inaugural Poet of the Year Award from ONLY POEMS. Her poems have been published - [2025 Gregory Pardlo Fellow: Amanda Gunn](https://frostplace.org/amanda-gunn-2025-pardlo-fellow/) - The Frost Place is pleased to announce this year's Gregory Pardlo Fellow at the Frost Place Poetry Seminar, Amanda Gunn. About Amanda Gunn Amanda Gunn’s debut poetry collection, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Raised in Connecticut, she worked as a medical copyeditor for 13 years before earning an - [The Paul Monette LGBTQIA+ Fellowship to attend The Frost Place Poetry Seminar](https://frostplace.org/the-paul-monette-fellowship/) - A full fellowship is available for a U.S. poet writing in English who identifies as LGBTQIA+ to attend the 4+ day online Poetry Seminar (August 2 - 6, 2026). We will accept applications March 1 - May 1, 2026. Staff of The Frost Place will pick one winner. The Paul Monette Fellow must be available - [Community News and New Releases](https://frostplace.org/community-news-and-new-releases/) - See what our community of poets has been working on! Ali Beheler, 2024 Poetry Seminar alum, will release her first chapbook, All Our (Un)Makings, in October 2026 by Finishing Line Press. Robert Hass, former Poet Laureate of the U.S. and TFP's second poet in residence in 1978, has released a new book, A Third Commonness: - [Directions](https://frostplace.org/museum/directions/) - Our street address is 158 Ridge Road, Franconia, NH 03580. Take Exit 38 off of Rte 93, and turn south toward Franconia. Continue straight on Route 116 for one mile. Turn right onto Bickford Hill Road and cross a small bridge. Follow the arrow on wooden sign for The Frost Place to bear left onto - [Something New: A Previously Unknown Poem by Robert Frost](https://frostplace.org/something-new-a-previously-unknown-poem-by-robert-frost/) - Nothing New By Robert FrostAmherst 1918 One moment when the dust to-dayAgainst my face was turned to spray,I dreamed the winter dream againI dreamed when I was young at play,Yet strangely not more sad than then—Nothing new—Though I am further upon my wayThe same dream again. - [Donate](https://frostplace.org/donate/) - Donate Checks are also gratefully accepted. Please endorse to "Friends of the Frost Place" and mail to P.O. Box 74, Franconia, NH 03580. The Frost Place is a museum and center for poetry based at Robert Frost’s former Franconia farmhouse, operated by the nonprofit organization Friends of the Frost Place. This humble home was built - [Adam Giannelli, 2026 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place](https://frostplace.org/adam-giannelli-dartmouth-poet-in-residence/) - We are delighted to announce that our 2026 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence is Adam Giannelli. Adam will join us in Franconia to stay at Frost’s former farmhouse this July to do his work as a poet, and give several readings in the area. Our final judge was Matthew Olzmann, who expressed how difficult the decision was due - [Poetry Seminar Details](https://frostplace.org/details_2024-2/) - To participate, you’ll access the events via Zoom. Program events will take place roughly between 10:00 AM and 4:30 PM ET, with readings nightly from approximately 8-9 PM ET. We frequently have participants from all U.S. time zones and others around the globe. As always, you’ll have access to instruction from our world-class faculty, focused - [A brief history](https://frostplace.org/a-brief-history/) - Frost first discovered this area of the White Mountains when he came there to seek relief from hay fever. He brought his family there and they fell in love with the area. The Frosts first rented rooms from an Irish farmer John Lynch in the late summer of 1907 in Bethlehem, N.H. Frost wrote to - [Meet our team.](https://frostplace.org/meet-our-team/) - Patrick Donnelly Program Director PATRICK DONNELLY, Program Director of The Frost Place, is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, 2025), and Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019). Since 2011, he has also been Director of the annual Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, where faculty has included an extremely diverse group of America's foremost poet-teachers. - [Board of Trustees](https://frostplace.org/about-us/board/) - Friends of the Frost Place is the nonprofit organization that operates The Frost Place, and is composed of a board of trustees: Trustees Don Metz, Chairman of the Board David Brooks, MD, Treasurer Jon Larner-Lewis, Secretary Cleopatra Mathis, Trustee Rachel Richardson, Trustee Nicky Conroy, Trustee Laura Jean Gilloux, Trustee Doug Nelson, Trustee Advisory Board - [Resident Poets Reading of Robert Frost’s Mountain Interval](https://frostplace.org/resident-poet-reading-of-robert-frosts-mountain-interval/) - Join us for Robert Frost's Birthday Reading of Mountain Interval, an evening of poetry rooted in place, read by some of our former poets-in-residence. Robert Frost published the book Mountain Interval in 1916 while living in his home in Franconia, NH. Today, this home is a house museum and center for poetry and the arts—now - [Frost's Poetry Timeline](https://frostplace.org/poetry-timeline/) - Have you ever wondered exactly when and where Robert Frost was when he penned your favorite poems? The answers may be revealed below! While this information does not necessarily speak to the inspiration behind the lines, it is a fascinating bit of information for Frost fans. Many thanks to our docent, Mark Roberts, who found - [Creative Writing Weekend for Young Writers](https://frostplace.org/creative-writing-weekend-for-young-writers/) - Details In a workshop-style group setting, young writers will explore the traditions and the craft of creative writing through reading, writing, and revision of poetry and other short forms. We will read and write from various types of poetry, dialogue, and some short fiction. A final celebration of our work will be held at the - [About The Frost Place](https://frostplace.org/about-us/) - A Brief History The Frost Place is a house-museum and center for poetry and the arts, based at Robert Frost’s former Franconia farmhouse. The property has been owned by the town of Franconia, New Hampshire, since 1976. The Frost Place is operated by Friends of the Frost Place, a nonprofit organization. The Frost Place was - [Robert Frost's Life](https://frostplace.org/frosttimeline/) - Open TimelinePrintable Frost TimelinePrintable Frost Bio Poetry Timeline Robert Frost Reads his Poetry Aloud Recommend Biographies Back to Resources Frost on YouTube Recommended Biographies Your purchases from bookshop.org can help to support independent bookstores and The Frost Place! - [The Frost Place Policies](https://frostplace.org/programs/policies/) - Tuition Fees, Cancellation, and Refunds For payments to the Poetry Seminar, we will issue a nonrefundable credit for the following year's program if you withdraw after June 1. Payments made will be refunded in full if you cancel 30 or more days in advance of your event. No refund or credit is available if you - [](https://frostplace.org/2026-poetry-seminar-faculty/) - 2026 Poetry Seminar Faculty Armen Davoudian Formalist Track Faculty Armen Davoudian grew up in New Julfa, a predominantly Armenian neighborhood in Isfahan, Iran. He has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. His poems and translations from Persian appear in The Atlantic, Poetry magazine, Best American Poetry, and - [The Frost Place Poetry Programs](https://frostplace.org/programs/) - Read more Read more Read more Read more Craft classes - [Formalist Track: Freedom and Form](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-formalist-2025/) - Form is enjoying a robust comeback, with poets writing now not just in received forms like sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, ghazals, haiku, tanka (as well as free verse, itself a form), but also in a broad array of exciting new forms including golden shovels, bops, duplexes, syncopated sonnets, and more. At the Poetry Seminar, we’re interested - [Advisory Board](https://frostplace.org/advisory-board/) - The Friends of the Frost Place Board of Trustees is fortunate to have the expertise of a talented group of advisors. Those people include: Vievee Francis, Dartmouth Liaison Syd Lea Afaa Michael Weaver Rebecca Foust Meg Kearney Martha Rhodes Dr. Joseph Bruchac Liz Boquet Michael Collier Deming Holleran Frannie Moyer Stephanie Robinson Jon Gilbert Fox - [Manuscript Reviews](https://frostplace.org/manuscript-reviews/) - The Frost Place is pleased to offer a very limited number of manuscript reviews, provided by board member, Rachel Richardson. Rachel Richardson's Approach to Manuscript Review If you've taken your book project as far as you can on your own, I can provide the perspective to help you see it more globally, sharpening its voice - [Three Frost Poems to Consider, Three Prompts](https://frostplace.org/three-frost-poems-to-consider-three-prompts/) - Courtesy of poet and educator Carlene Gadapee. Three Poetry Prompts - 8th GradeDownload - [Financial Aid](https://frostplace.org/financial-aid/) - The Frost Place is committed to fostering an inclusive environment. If our class fees are incompatible with your budget, we encourage you to apply for financial aid. Assistance is available on a first-come, first-served basis, as funds allow. Aid may only be used for future programming and cannot be applied retroactively. Apply - [Nathan Xavier Osorio, 2025 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence](https://frostplace.org/nathan-xavier-osorio-2025-dartmouth-poet-in-residence/) - We are pleased to announce that Nathan Xavier Osorio has been named the 2025 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place. He will spend four weeks at Robert Frost’s former farmhouse in Franconia, New Hampshire, this June and July, giving several readings in the area. We hope this opportunity will allow time, space, and inspiration for - [2025 Poetry Seminar Faculty](https://frostplace.org/ps-faculty-2025/) - Deborah Paradez Formalist Track Faculty Deborah Paredez is the author of four books: the critical memoir American Diva (Norton 2024), the scholarly study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009) and the poetry collections This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), a New York - [Online Poetry Reading](https://frostplace.org/poetry-reading-june6/) - June 6, 2025 | 7 pm EST | Zoom We're celebrating several new publications in the TFP community! Join us for an online reading, where Yuki Tanaka, Rachel Richardson, and Patrick Donnelly will read from their latest books. Rachel Richardson is the author of Smother (W. W. Norton, 2025) and two earlier poetry collections, Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave. She is a - [Online Workshops](https://frostplace.org/online-workshops/) - The Frost Place is honored to have world-class faculty joining us to present these upcoming online poetry workshops. - [March 8 | Tina Cane | Congeries, Catalogues, and Lists](https://frostplace.org/march-8-tina-cane-congeries-catalogues-and-lists/) - My life is ruled by lists — not the top-ten type — but the scrawled kind I find stashed post-season in winter coats or crumpled at the bottom of my bottomless bag. Lists like: “vodka, milk, apples, cookies, bananas, eggs, soap.” There is poetry in this. Not because I am a poet but because, like - [February 9 | Janice N. Harrington | Getting to the End of It: The Art and Artifice of Poetic Closure](https://frostplace.org/feb9-poetic-closure/) - How do you end your poems? In this generative writing workshop, participants will study how poets shape and explore poetic closure. We will study poems by diverse contemporary poets and use their poems as compasses and mentors for rethinking and re-envisioning alternative endings for the poems that we have written. Participants will also draw on - [January 25 | Blas Falconer | Turning Toward A Mystery](https://frostplace.org/january-25-blas-falconer-turning-toward-a-mystery/) - Sold Out! What do we mean by the “poetic turn”? I think of it as a change of gears, a ship tacking on the water, any shift in the poem, rhetorical or formal, from description to reflection, from question to answer, from one Point of View to another, from statement to contradiction—it’s a swing of - [Event Venues](https://frostplace.org/event-venues/) - [event_venues] - [Submit Venue Form](https://frostplace.org/submit-venue-form/) - [submit_venue_form] - [Venue Dashboard](https://frostplace.org/venue-dashboard/) - [venue_dashboard] - [Organizer Dashboard](https://frostplace.org/organizer-dashboard/) - [organizer_dashboard] - [Event Organizers](https://frostplace.org/event-organizers/) - [event_organizers] - [Events](https://frostplace.org/events/) - [events] - [Submit Organizer Form](https://frostplace.org/submit-organizer-form/) - [submit_organizer_form] - [Post an Event](https://frostplace.org/post-an-event/) - [submit_event_form] - [Event Dashboard](https://frostplace.org/event-dashboard/) - [event_dashboard] - [Educator Resources](https://frostplace.org/educator-resources/) - The Frost Place is a class trip destination and, we hope, a destination for educator resources. Hover over the Educator menu above to find links to the following: Printable Frost biography/timeline with linked poems Frost Lessons/Writing Prompts with poems—lesson ideas /writing prompts for a variety of age levels, with suggested Frost poems Whitman biography—short overview - [Duck, Duck, ______: On Patterns and Variation](https://frostplace.org/duck-duck-______-on-patterns-and-variation/) - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips has written that "at the end of the day, poetry is patterned language." The relationship between pattern and what he calls "the meaningful disruption of that pattern" gives poetry the muscularity required to become memorable. In this generative writing workshop, participants will closely examine poems that effectively deploy, reinforce, and - [Layering Narrative, Lyric, and Meditative Elements: Revision and the Three Modes of Poetry](https://frostplace.org/three-modes-workshop/) - An Online Workshop – Sunday, October 20, 2024, 2:30 – 5 pm EST This class will explore the defining characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of three modes of poetry: narrative, lyric, and meditative. (Or, “story elements, feeling elements, and thinking elements.”) Through close readings of several poems, we'll examine how these modes combine into hybrid modes, - [Museum](https://frostplace.org/museum/) - All are welcome to enjoy the view from Robert Frost's porch and the poetry trail year-round. Museum hours The Frost Place is a “house museum,” a sanctuary for lovers of poetry and books on a quiet north country lane with a spectacular view of the White Mountains. By today’s standards especially, this is a small - [E- Newsletter](https://frostplace.org/e-newsletter/) - Want to keep up with all of the news from The Frost Place? Subscribe to our E-Newsletter. - [Activities of Daily Living: Glorifying Chores in Verse](https://frostplace.org/activities-of-daily-living/) - Frost used everyday events and activities as the firm foundation of many of his poems. After reading a few of these, try your hand at writing a poem that explores what is both tedious and glorious about a task you do often (folding laundry, walking the dog, shoveling snow). Use Frost’s poems for inspiration, but - [Aurielle Marie, 2024 Dartmouth Poet in Residence](https://frostplace.org/2024-dartmouth-poet-in-residence/) - We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place will be Aurielle Marie (they/she) of Atlanta, Georgia. They will live at Robert Frost's former farmhouse in Franconia, NH for the month of July and give a number of readings in the area. Nominations this year were made by Patricia Smith, - [Public Speaking for Writers Workshop](https://frostplace.org/public-speaking-for-writers-workshop/) - Join us on Zoom - Saturday, May 4, 2024 from 12:30 - 3:30pm EDT Have you ever been to a reading where the reader mumbled, read too quickly or softly for comprehension, lost the audience’s attention shuffling through a huge, dog-eared sheaf of pages, or read long past the allotted time limit? Writing poetry or - [Full-Length Manuscript Review](https://frostplace.org/full-length-manuscript-review/) - For an additional $575 fee, the Seminar will offer to a limited number of participants the opportunity to discuss a full-length manuscript with Program Director Patrick Donnelly. (If your manuscript is longer than 60 pages, excluding apparatus like Table of Contents, etc. there will be an additional charge.) Donnelly’s extensive editorial experience includes his time - [Poetry Program Application Fee Payment](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-program-application-fee-payment/) - Pay your $25 application fee (waived for previous participants in Frost Place poetry programs). - [Resources](https://frostplace.org/resources/) - [Contact Us](https://frostplace.org/contact/) - Call: 603-823-5510 Email: frost@frostplace.org Our mailing address is: The Frost Place, PO Box 74, Franconia, NH 03580 The street address of the historic home is: 158 Ridge Road, Franconia, NH 03580 but please don't use this address for mailing items or for deliveries. Social: Facebook | Instagram | X | Threads | Youtube - [Full-Length Manuscript Review](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/manuscript-review/) - For an additional fee of $575, the Seminar will offer to a limited number of participants the opportunity to discuss a full-length manuscript with Seminar director Patrick Donnelly. (If your manuscript is longer than 60 pages, excluding apparatus like Table of Contents, etc. there will be an additional charge.) Donnelly’s extensive editorial experience includes his - [2023 Poetry Seminar Faculty](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/ps-faculty-2023/) - Patrick Donnelly Poetry Seminar Director and Faculty Patrick Donnelly is the author of five books of poetry, Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, 2025), Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and The Charge - [Poetry Seminar Details 2023](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/seminar-details-2-2/) - The Poetry Seminar Is an Online Experience in 2023: Once again this year the Poetry Seminar will be an online experience, July 30 through August 4. To participate, you’ll access the events via Zoom, a free videoconferencing platform. One benefit to holding the Seminar online is that you’ll be able to take part from anywhere - [2022 Poetry Seminar Faculty](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/ps-faculty-2022/) - Patrick Donnelly Poetry Seminar Director and Faculty Patrick Donnelly is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019). About Donnelly, Gregory Orr wrote “everything he writes is suffused with tenderness and intelligence, lucidity and courage.” Former poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, his poems have appeared in American Poetry - [Educator Resources Other](https://frostplace.org/educator-resources-other/) - Gathered Resources for Educators [table id=5 /] Questions? Concerns? Suggestions? Resources to add? We would love to hear from you. - [Apply](https://frostplace.org/apply/) - [2024 Full-Length Manuscript Review](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/manuscript-review-2024/) - For an additional fee of $575, the Seminar will offer to a limited number of participants the opportunity to discuss a full-length manuscript with Seminar director Patrick Donnelly. (If your manuscript is longer than 60 pages, excluding apparatus like Table of Contents, etc. there will be an additional charge.) Donnelly’s extensive editorial experience includes his - [Poetry Seminar Details 2024](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/details_2024/) - The Poetry Seminar is an Online Experience in 2024: Once again this year the Poetry Seminar will be an online experience, August 4 - 8. To participate, you’ll access the events via Zoom. Program events will take place roughly between 10:00 AM and 9:00 PM ET. We frequently have participants from all U.S. timezones. As - [History](https://frostplace.org/about-us/history/) - The Frost Place is a nonprofit educational center for poetry and the arts based at Robert Frost’s former homestead, which is owned by the town of Franconia, New Hampshire. Donations are used to support and maintain the house and the programs. The Frost Place was founded in 1976 when a group of neighbors led by - [Subscribe to The Frost Place Newsletter](https://frostplace.org/subscribe/) - Want to keep up with all of the news from The Frost Place? Subscribe to our E-Newsletter. Subscribe * indicates required Email Address *First Name Last Name - [Apply for Summer Programs](https://frostplace.org/apply-for-summer-programs/) - Instructions Applications may be completed electronically and emailed to frost@frostplace.org or printed and mailed to The Frost Place, P.O. Box 74, Franconia, NH 03580. Application fee payment can also be handled electronically (see application form for more details) or sent by mail with application materials. Please feel free to email us at frost@frostplace.org with any questions. - [Fall Foliage at The Frost Place](https://frostplace.org/fallfoliage/) - “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...” It's that time of year again. The mountains and valleys are lighting up with color. Visit The Frost Place and enjoy the sweeping view from Robert Frost’s front porch. Each fall, we extend the museum hours so that visitors can experience the color and light of the fall - [Organize an Event](https://frostplace.org/museum/organize-your-event-at-tfp/) - The Frost Place can accommodate a variety of events, including group tours, memorial services, private functions, historical walks, small stage performances, readings and lectures, etc. We also try to make the property available for special projects. The Henry Holt Barn offers an intimate setting for gatherings. Our knowledgeable museum docents can talk your ear off - [Media Inquiries](https://frostplace.org/media/) - Thank you so much for your interest in The Frost Place, Robert Frost's historic home in Franconia, New Hampshire. We are very happy to help. Please fill out the contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible. [forminator_form id="15610"] - [2023 Dartmouth Poet in Residence Jessica Jacobs](https://frostplace.org/2023-dartmouth-poet-in-residence-jessica-jacobs/) - Meet Jessica Jacobs Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books), named one of Library Journal‘s Best Poetry Books of the year, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University and the Goldie Award from the Golden Crown Literary Society, and a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell, - [The Frost Place Studio Sessions-- Rilke and Imagination: A Generative Writing Weekend](https://frostplace.org/frost-place-studio-sessions-homer-2/) - September 23 & 24, 2023 Instructor Dawn Potter About the Workshop In this weekend gathering, we’ll spend intense time with a variety of writings by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Discussions will consider how Rilke was able to develop an intense and imaginative intimacy with his readers—how, in the words of his translator Stephen - [The Frost Place Studio Sessions-- Revisiting Homer's Odyssey: A Generative Writing Weekend](https://frostplace.org/frost-place-studio-sessions-homer/) - October 28 and 29, 2023 Instructor Dawn Potter Description In this generative writing weekend, we treat the Odyssey as an opportunity to explore contemporary concerns about power and identity. Using selected passages from Emily Wilson’s recent translation of the epic poem, we will discuss a variety of overarching themes connected to issues of choice, control, - [The Frost Place Studio Sessions](https://frostplace.org/programs/frost-place-studio-sessions/) - Year-Round Virtual Classes and Workshops The Studio Sessions offer year-round online programming: generative and revision workshops, manuscript support, readings, teacher roundtables, seminars, lectures, and more. Our goal is to honor the heart of the Frost Place—its commitment to poetry and the teaching of poetry—while moving toward broader engagement with other art forms and endeavors. As - [2023 Conference on Poetry and Teaching](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry-and-teaching/) - June 24-28, 2023 | Writing Intensive June 28-29, 2023 "For teachers, poetry is a door into the heart of the matter--whether that matter be intellectual or emotional, civic or ecological. Because poetry taps into both wildness and civility, it is a way to guide students into the complexities of human interactions, a way to model - [We Gather Together: Reading and Writing about Community](https://frostplace.org/we-gather-together-reading-and-writing-about-community/) - November 19, 1-3 p.m. ET, via Zoom Carlene Gadapee, facilitator As the global pandemic has shown us, it can be hard to be alone. People need to be with other people, and reading, writing, and talking about poems can help us recognize and celebrate our place in the human community. In this no-pressure poetry-writing workshop, - [Poet as Storyteller: Exploring the Power of Narrative](https://frostplace.org/frost-place-studio-sessions-details-page-2/fpss-poet-as-storyteller/) - Saturday and Sunday, February 4–5, 2023, via Zoom Saturday 10-3 ET Sunday 10-12 ET Dawn Potter, instructor In this two-day generative session, we’ll consider how the elements of storytelling can help broaden and enrich our engagement with our own poetry drafts. We’ll look at plot movement and character development and consider the construction of - [Educator Newsletter](https://frostplace.org/educator-resources-2/) - Resources for Educators FrostEd is the newsletter produced quarterly as a resource for teachers and those who serve in nontraditional teaching settings. 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If you have questions about this policy, please email us at - [Learning from Nina Simone: An Introductory Chapbook Seminar](https://frostplace.org/frost-place-studio-sessions-details-page-2/fpss-nina-simone-december/) - Three Sundays: December 4, 11, and 18, 2022, 1-4 p.m. ET, via Zoom Dawn Potter, instructor In 1958, the great singer, songwriter, and pianist Nina Simone released her first album, Little Girl Blue, a gorgeous collection that reveals her debts to both classical music and jazz and hints at the unique and idiosyncratic style she - [Teaching with Poetry Out Loud: Building a Community in Your Classroom](https://frostplace.org/teachingpol-smith/) - Saturday, October 1, 2022, 1-3:30 p.m., ET, via Zoom Holly Smith, Instructor Poetry Out Loud is a free, ever-changing source for bringing poetry to life in the classroom. In this Teachers’ Round Table session, educator and Poetry Out Loud veteran Holly Smith will offer structured ways for teachers to navigate POL, with the goal of - [The Path of Poetry: Words and Practices to Carry Us through Challenging Times](https://frostplace.org/poetrypath-ramsey/) - Saturday, August 27, 2022, 1-3:30 p.m., ET, via Zoom Ian Ramsey, Instructor In these disruptive, uncertain times, it can be difficult to stay positive in the classroom, not to mention find time and space to do our own creative work. In this Teachers' Round Table session, poet and educator Ian Ramsey will share work by - [Poetry Seminar](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar/) - An Online Experience July 31 -August 5, 2022 Click Here to View More Information on the 2022 Poetry Seminar As always, you’ll have access to instruction from our world-class faculty, focused attention on your work, and the vital exchanges of peers in workshop. Our goal is to support, refresh, and inspire you. Spend five days - [Formalist Track, "Freedom and Form"](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-formalist-2/) - Formalist Track: Freedom and Form Our formalist track faculty this year will be Phillip B. Williams. Form is enjoying a robust comeback, with poets writing now not just in received forms like sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, ghazals, haiku, tanka (as well as free verse, itself a form), but also in a broad array of exciting new forms - [Formalist Track, "Freedom and Form"](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-formalist-3/) - Formalist Track: Freedom and Form Our formalist track faculty this year will be Phillip B. Williams. Form is enjoying a robust comeback, with poets writing now not just in received forms like sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, ghazals, haiku, tanka (as well as free verse, itself a form), but also in a broad array of exciting new forms - [It’s Spring! "Reading and Writing about Change and Rebirth"](https://frostplace.org/rebirth-curran/) - Saturday, April 23, 2022, 1-3 p.m. ET, via Zoom Beth Curran, facilitator U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo reminds us that “Change rides in on many speeds.” The change of seasons is no exception, and spring in particular opens us year after year into transformation and wonder. In this welcoming workshop, master teacher Beth Curran will - [Conference on Poetry and Teaching Schedule](https://frostplace.org/conference-on-poetry-and-teaching-schedule/) - [ai1ec cat_name="Conference on Poetry and Teaching”] - [Poetry Program Fee Payment](https://frostplace.org/poetry-program-application-fee-payment-3/) - Pay your $200 program fee. - [Poet's Table with Plus One Fee Payment](https://frostplace.org/poetry-program-application-fee-payment-2-2/) - Pay your $30 fee for participation in a Poet's Table Program with a friend. - [Poet's Table Fee Payment](https://frostplace.org/poetry-program-application-fee-payment-2/) - Pay your $20 fee for participation in a Poet's Table Program. - [The Frost Place Studio Sessions](https://frostplace.org/frost-place-studio-sessions-details-page-2/) - The Frost Place Studio Sessions Team Maudelle Driskell, Executive Director of the Frost Place Maudelle Driskell is the creative impetus behind the Frost Place Studio Sessions: conceiving the idea, building the collaboration, and implementing the programs. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and was the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, - [“So Happy Together”: Reading and Writing about Friendship](https://frostplace.org/so-happy-together-reading-and-writing-about-friendship/) - February 12, 2022, 1-3 p.m. ET, via Zoom Carlene Gadapee, facilitator Celebrate friendship and the ones you love! In our inaugural Poets' Table session, poet and teacher Carlene Gadapee will share a few poems focusing on friendship and invite us to try our hand at our own friendship poems—just in time for Valentine's Day. Join us, and invite - [The Nation as Muse: Learning from the Postwar Polish Poets](https://frostplace.org/the-nation-as-muse-learning-from-the-postwar-polish-poets/) - Saturday & Sunday, March 12 & 13, 2022, 10-3 p.m. ET, each day, with a Saturday evening participant reading, via Zoom Dawn Potter, instructor In this weekend gathering, we’ll be focusing on the work of a number of twentieth-century Polish poets, including Milosz, Herbert, and Szymborska, with a particular focus on how they address issues - [Double Your Donation This Giving Tuesday](https://frostplace.org/double-your-donation-this-giving-tuesday/) - Dear Friends of The Frost Place, I would like to match up to $5000, contributed by the end of this year, December 31, 2021. My hope is to encourage Frost Place supporters to give and then I’ll match it! My mother Charlotte was a huge reader of poetry throughout her life. When she was in - [The Frost Place Studio Sessions-- Learning from Nina Simone: An Introductory Chapbook Seminar](https://frostplace.org/programs/frost-place-studio-sessions/fpss-nina-simone-september/) - Three Consecutive Sundays: September 12, 19, and 26, 2021 Applications are now closed. Please visit us again soon for upcoming programs! Instructor Dawn Potter Poets at Work Session In 1958, the great singer, songwriter, and pianist Nina Simone released her first album, Little Girl Blue, a gorgeous collection that reveals her debts to both classical - [Newsletter](https://frostplace.org/newsletter-3/) - [newsletter] - [Whitman as Compassionate Observer](https://frostplace.org/whitman/) - By Carlene Gadapee, Associate Creative Director and Education Consultant What causes a poet –indeed, any person—to bear witness and to speak during times of stress and disruption? Walt Whitman- poet, philosopher, nurse, and witness during the divisive times of the American Civil War- was greatly influenced by his contemporary, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In many of - [What’s the Most Important Word?](https://frostplace.org/most-important-word/) - Most people are familiar with Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” but it is worth a re-visiting. Poets choose words very carefully, and the order the words appear in is not accidental! Read the poem aloud at least twice (teacher reads, then a student or two). Then, quietly consider: what is the most important word? - [Using Newspaper Accounts for Inspiration](https://frostplace.org/using-newspaper-accounts/) - Many people don’t realize that Frost’s poem “Out, Out—” is based on an event that actually happened, as is reported in the Littleton (NH) Courier of March, 1910. One of a local man’s twin sons had his hand cut off by a buzz saw and he died as a result; this traumatic experience is at - [Using Frost Poems to Demonstrate the Use of Symbols](https://frostplace.org/using-symbols/) - Symbols are found throughout most literature, and they do a lot of the “heavy lifting,” especially when the diction is more poetic and/or the language used employs compression. Suggested poems to explore the use of symbols: "Design":Poem reading by Cammy ThomasPoem Text “Nothing Gold Can Stay”:Poem reading by Hannah FriesPoem Text Back to Resources - [Using Frost Poems to Demonstrate Allusion](https://frostplace.org/allusion/) - Allusion is often difficult to explain, especially given that many students don’t have a wide background of knowledge and other famous works of literature, art, music, and of events in history yet. Using short poems to show how allusion works is a great way to introduce or reinforce the concept. Using “Nothing Gold Can Stay” - [Revisiting Frost’s “Birches” to Create Visual Interpretations](https://frostplace.org/visual-interpretation/) - Read Frost’s poem “Birches” aloud using a well-illustrated book or a video you can find on sites like youtube. Now, illustrate the poem yourself! Be prepared to share. For younger students, working in small groups with each student taking a section would be good. For older students, making a picture book to share with younger - [New Hampshire History Exploration Using Frost’s Poem, “New Hampshire”](https://frostplace.org/history-exploration/) - Frost wrote a long narrative poem extolling much of the history, beauty, and singularity of the state of New Hampshire. First, read the poem aloud to the class without them having a copy. Next, have students mark things they need to find while they listen the second time (you will have done so earlier, in - [List of Frost Poems to Demonstrate Tone](https://frostplace.org/tone/) - One of the hardest things to demonstrate and teach is how tone or mood is developed in a poem. It is all wrapped up in things like word choice, meter, imagery, anthropomorphizing, dialogue, sonics, structure, etc., and is really hard to pin down! Here are a few Frost poems that are super for demonstrating tone - [Frost Place Scavenger Hunt](https://frostplace.org/scavenger-hunt/) - Frost Place Scavenger Hunt—You must complete the entire grid! Then, turn it in to be put in a drawing for a prize (in class tomorrow). Back to Resources - [Frost and the Narrative Poem](https://frostplace.org/narrative-poem/) - Narrative poems tell stories through the use of verse and usually include dialogue among a few characters. They really need to be read aloud to get the full impact; having students do a table-reading of a Frost narrative poem is a really good way to make it “alive” and urgent. Some poems that work very - [Our Educators](https://frostplace.org/our-educators/) - Associate Creative Director and Education Consultant, Carlene M. Gadapee Carlene M. Gadapee teaches high school English, and she is the associate creative director and education consultant for The Frost Place in Franconia, NH. She holds a BS in English Education, MEd in Curriculum and Design, and MA-LS in Liberal Studies from Northern Vermont University-Lyndon. Her - [Conference on Poetry](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/) - The Conference on Poetry will return in the summer of 2022! Please consider joining us for some of our other programs. Spend a week at "intensive poetry camp" with writers who are deeply committed to learning more about the craft of writing poetry. The Frost Place Poetry Conference offers workshops, classes, lectures, writing and revising - [The Frost Place Staff](https://frostplace.org/about-us/staff/) - Executive Director Maudelle Driskell Maudelle Driskell holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. Her work has been published in many literary reviews and anthologies. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, awarded by Poetry and the Modern Language Association. Raised in south Georgia, Driskell lived most of her adult life in Atlanta. She now - [2021 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow Ae Hee Lee](https://frostplace.org/2021-chapbook-fellow-ae-hee-lee/) - Meet Ae Hee Lee Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee is an immigrant, scholar, translator, and poet currently living in Milwaukee. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017) and Dear bear, (Platypus Press, 2021). She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, - [2021 Poetry Seminar Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/2021-poetry-seminar-faculty/) - Patrick Donnelly Poetry Seminar Director Patrick Donnelly is the author of four books of poetry, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper - [2020 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow Armen Davoudian](https://frostplace.org/2020-chapbook-fellow-armen-davoudian/) - Meet Armen Davoudian Armen Davoudian’s poems and translations from Persian appear in AGNI, Narrative, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. 2020 Judge Patrick Donnelly's Praise for Swan Songs What - [Educator's Newsletter](https://frostplace.org/newsletter-2/) - [newsletter] - [News](https://frostplace.org/news-and-events/) - Covid-19 and The Museum and Henry Holt Barn at The Frost Place Dear Visitors, We hope to open The Frost Place Museum at the end of the summer 2021. However, we are ever mindful of your safety, and we will follow the direction of our medical and civic authorities regarding the opening of the house, - [2021 Conference On Poetry and Teaching Faculty](https://frostplace.org/faculty-and-fellows-2021/) - Back About the Faculty Dawn Potter directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, held each summer at Robert Frost's home in Franconia, New Hampshire. In addition, she leads the high school writing program at Monson Arts, co-directs the Kauffmann Summer Writing Seminar, and occasionally offers online poetry and nonfiction classes through 24PearlStreet. When not teaching, she works as - [Writing Intensive](https://frostplace.org/writing-intensive/) - The Frost Place Writing Intensive is a intimate reading and writing workshop that directly follows the online Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Its goal is to give teachers the opportunity to focus entirely on writing and revising their own writing. Participants will also attend a faculty poetry reading and Q & A session. 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Her chapbooks, Mom’s Canoe and Dark Card (Texas Review Press, 2008, 2009) consecutively won the Robert Phillips - [Thank You For Your Application](https://frostplace.org/thank-you-for-your-order/) - Thank you for your application fee payment. You will be receiving an email with more information shortly. We appreciate your interest in The Frost Place 2020 Conference on Poetry. - [Robert Frost Signature Notebook](https://frostplace.org/frost-notebook/) - Robert Frost Signature Notebook With Introduction by Maudelle Driskell, Executive Director of The Frost Place Plot the meter of your next poem alongside inspiring quotes and stanzas from New England poet, Robert Frost. With just enough space for jotting down rhyming couplets, this compact notebook is perfect for wandering through the woods of Franconia on - [Group Visit to The Frost Place](https://frostplace.org/group-visit-to-the-frost-place/) - Reservation Page/Inquiry - [2019 Gregory Pardlo Fellow Justin Danzy](https://frostplace.org/2019-gregory-pardlo-fellow-justin-danzy/) - About Justin Danzy Justin Danzy is a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is completing his MFA. His poems have appeared in West Branch and Guesthouse among other places. He is a member of Westside Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. Justin is from Southfield, Michigan. On Winning the Gregory - [2018 Pardlo Fellow Joy Priest](https://frostplace.org/2018-pardlo-fellow-joy-priest/) - Joy Priest is a writer from Louisville, KY., studying in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina. She has received grants, fellowships, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Priest is a two-time finalist for the International Poetry Awards’ Rita Dove Poetry - [2017 Pardlo Fellow Nathan McClain](https://frostplace.org/2017-pardlo-fellow-nathan-mcclain/) - Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017), the 2017 Gregory Pardlo Frost Place Poetry fellow, and a recipient of scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in New York Times Magazine, upstreet, The Rumpus, The - [2016 Pardlo Fellow Charif Shanahan](https://frostplace.org/2016-pardlo-fellow-charif-shanahan/) - Charif Shanahan was born and raised in the Bronx. He is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/SIU Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, the New Republic, the New - [2020 Conference on Poetry Application Fee Payment](https://frostplace.org/application-fee-payment-2/) - [wp_cart_button name="2020 COP Application" price="10.00"] [show_wp_shopping_cart] - [Latinx Scholarship](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/latin-scholarship/) - This scholarship is designed to encourage the Latinx voice in poetry and the literary arts, both at The Frost Place and in the broader literary community. It covers tuition, room and board, and travel for The Frost Place Conference on Poetry. For the 2020 Conference on Poetry, which will occur online, it will cover tuition - [2020 Latinx Scholar Emericus Brown-Murillo Gonzalez](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/latin-scholarship/2020-latinx-fellow-emericus-brown/) - Meet Emericus Brown-Murillo Gonzalez Emiricus Brown-Murillo Gonzalez (né Emir Brown) is a Honduran-American poet and musician from Harlem, New York. They are the author of several books: black.ace – a series of poems, how it feels to love and love again: an anthology and Entitled in the Ghetto. They were the 2017 recipient of the - [2020 Latinx Scholar Francis Madi Cerrada](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/latin-scholarship/2020-latinx-fellow-francis-cerrada/) - Meet Francis Madi Cerrada Francis Madi Cerrada is a queer writer, playwright, poet, community organizer and policy analyst from Caracas, Venezuela who currently resides in New York City. Her work explores the intersectional dynamics that migration, intergenerational movement, queerness, family, love and relationships, and such issues at play in a person’s life. A Poem by - [Pay Now](https://frostplace.org/pay-now/) - [Thank You!](https://frostplace.org/thank-you/) - Your payment was received. Home - [Resource Template](https://frostplace.org/resource-template/) - Text Block Verse Block Back to Resources - [2017 Latin@ Scholar Benjamin Garcia](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/latin-scholarship/2017-ben-garcia-latin-scholar/) - Meet Benjamin Garcia Benjamin Garcia is a CantoMundo fellow. He received a BA in English and in Spanish from the University of New Mexico, and he received an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Best New Poets, As/Us, Gulf Coast, The Collagist, and West - [2018 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow Yuki Tanaka](https://frostplace.org/2018-chapbook-fellow-yuki-tanaka/) - Meet Yuki Tanaka Yuki Tanaka was born and raised in Yamaguchi, Japan. He is an MFA student at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. His translations of modern Japanese poetry (with Mary - [Technical Information - 2020 Conference on Poetry](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/technical-information-2020/) - How You’ll Take Part in the Conference: You’ll need a computer with a camera and microphone and high-speed internet. You’ll download the free Zoom app, then use the links we provide to join each event. We’ll provide clear instructions, and a staff member will be available to troubleshoot tech issues with you. All sessions will - [A Day at the Conference - 2020](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/a-day-at-the-conference-on-poetry-2020/) - The coronavirus pandemic has led many people to rethink their summer plans and so we have redesigned the Conference on Poetry as an online experience. But our values are still the same: joyful companionship, rigorous compassion, and an emphasis on the craft of poetry. We'll start most days around noon Eastern / 9:00 a.m. Pacific - [2020 Conference On Poetry Faculty](https://frostplace.org/2020-conference-on-poetry-faculty-and-fellows-2/) - July 5-10, 2020 | Apply Now! Apply The application deadline is July 1, 2020. All requests for scholarships must be received by June 25, 2020. - [2020 Poetry Seminar Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/2020-poetry-seminar-faculty/) - Patrick Donnelly Poetry Seminar Director Patrick Donnelly is the author of four books of poetry. Former poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, and an associate editor of Poetry International. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Slate, The Virginia - [Formalist Track](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-formalist/) - The response to our new Formalist Track has been so strong that Rebecca Foust's workshop is now full. We've added a second Formalist section, which will be led by Diane Seuss (a master of the modern sonnet), and that workshop is also filling quickly. Spaces are limited, please apply soon. Diane Seuss Diane Seuss’s most - [Poems by Patrick Donnelly](https://frostplace.org/patrick-donnelly-poems/) - Return to Patrick Donnelly [accordion] [acc_item title="Jesus said to me Did you mean"] By Patrick Donnelly to draw some moral from your own life, how you found love so late? How though you weren’t patient, weren’t kind, in pursuit were ruthless, it was given to you anyway? Though that story’s not done, not proven, you - [National Poetry Month 2018](https://frostplace.org/national-poetry-month-2018/) - April is National Poetry Month! Do you want to celebrate National Poetry Month and support The Frost Place? Good news—you can! Join our National Poetry Month fundraising campaign by participating in the "Pennies for Poetry" program. The Frost Place recently received a $25,000 matching grant, and we need your help to reach our fundraising goal. - [Partners](https://frostplace.org/about-us/partners/) - The Frost Place's mission is to provide a permanent home and museum for poets and poetry, while honoring the legacy of Robert Frost and encouraging the creation and appreciation of poems. We partner with organizations who have similar goals, and we hope that these partnerships will help build the boarder reach of poetry in many - [All of The Frost Place Resident Poets](https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/list-of-resident-poets/) - 1977 Katha Pollitt 1978 Robert Hass 1979 Gary Miranda 1980 William Matthews 1981 Mary Jo Salter 1982 Cleopatra Mathis 1983 Denis Johnson 1984 Sherod Santos 1985 Kathy Fagan 1986 Christopher Gilbert 1987 Pattiann Rogers 1988 John Engels 1989 Julie Agoos 1990 Rosanna Warren 1991 Stanley Plumly 1992 Robert - ["From Function, Form" a poem by Rebecca Foust](https://frostplace.org/from-function-form-a-poem-by-rebecca-foust/) - From Function, Form by Rebecca Foust On the bus to Salinas, sectioned fields plumed with blue sprinkler arcs; a distant tractor trailed dust in rows like Log Cabin quilt bars, alternating wine, green and gray, like the earth in its seasons. The quilt was Amish, stitched in the ditch, twelve dips per inch, the hair-thin - ["Like That" by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet](https://frostplace.org/like-that-by-lisa-gluskin-stonestreet/) - LIKE THAT by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet The first time I leaned over and swept the tip of my smallest fingernail down into the whorl of your ear (bigger than your elbow), and you yelped in violation: forgive me it is no longer my ear (little boat, little shell I carved) and still flushing pink, even - ["Charge" by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet](https://frostplace.org/charge-by-lisa-gluskin-stonestreet/) - CHARGE by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet 1. Nine-volt coppertop. Stolen from the box under the counter at my father’s store, dug in like a secret (like the cigarette the summer before) under the oleander in the backyard. Put it to my tongue, polar distance collapsed to half, half again: sharp star in its leap past - [2019 Latinx Scholar Jacob Saenz](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/latin-scholarship/2019-latinx-scholar-jacob-saenz/) - Meet Jacob Saenz Jacob Saenz is the author of Throwing the Crown, winner of the 2018 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in PANK, Poetry, Memorious, Tammy and other journals. A CantoMundo fellow, he's been the recipient of a Letras Latinas Residency and a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. He serves - [2018 Latin@ Scholar Eduardo Martinez-Leyva](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/latin-scholarship/2018-latin-scholar-eduardo-martinez-leyva/) - Meet Eduardo Martinez-Leyva Eduardo Martinez-Leyva’s poems have appeared in The Journal, The Boston Review, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, Best New Poets 2015, and elsewhere. He received his M.F.A. from Columbia University, where he was a teaching fellow. He is a CantoMundo fellow. On Being Named the 2018 Latin@ Scholar "A community - [2019 Dartmouth Poet in Residence Matthew Minicucci](https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/2019matthewminicucci/) - Meet Matthew Minicucci Matthew Minicucci’s most recent collection Small Gods (New Issues), won the 2019 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award in Poetry. His first book, Translation (Kent State University Press), was chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize. His poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from numerous journals including the Alaska Quarterly Review, The Believer, the Gettysburg Review,Oregon - [2018 Dartmouth Poet in Residence Nicole Homer](https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/2018nicolehomer/) - Meet Nicole Homer Nicole Homer's first full-length collection of poems, Pecking Order, published by Write Bloody Press was a finalist for the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muzzle, The Offing, Winter Tangerine, Rattle, The Collagist and elsewhere. A The Watering Hole graduate fellow and Callaloo fellow, Nicole serves as an - [2015 Dartmouth Poet in Residence Todd Hearon](https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/2015-dartmouth-poet-in-residence-todd-hearon/) - About Todd Hearon Todd Hearon is a prize-winning poet and dramatist, co-founder and artistic board member of The Bridge Theatre Company, Boston. His first book of poems, Strange Land, won the Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open Competition, judged by US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, and his full-length play, Wives of the Dead, was winner of - [2016 Dartmouth Poet in Residence Rose McLarney](https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/2016-dartmouth-poet-in-residence-rose-mclarney/) - Meet Rose McLarney Rose McLarney has published two collections of poems, Its Day Being Gone (Penguin Books, 2014) and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way Books, 2012). Its Day Being Gone is the 2013 National Poetry Series winner. Rose has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, - [2017 Dartmouth Poet in Residence Christina Hutchins](https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/2017-dartmouth-poet-in-residence-christina-hutchins/) - Meet Christina Hutchins Christina Hutchins’s second full-length poetry collection, Tender the Maker, won the 2015 May Swenson Award. She is also the author of The Stranger Dissolves (2011), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Audre Lorde Prize, and two chapbooks, Radiantly We Inhabit the Air (Robin Becker Prize, 2011) and Collecting - [2019 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow R. Cassandra Bruner](https://frostplace.org/2019-chapbook-fellow-r-cassandra-bruner-1/) - Meet R. Cassandra Bruner R. Cassandra Bruner earned her MFA in poetry from Eastern Washington University where she served as Managing Editor of Willow Springs Books. Finalist for Black Warrior Review's 2018 Nonfiction Contest, their poems and essays have appeared, or are upcoming in, The Adroit Journal, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Muzzle, New England Review, - [2017 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow Conor Bracken](https://frostplace.org/2017-frost-place-chapbook-fellow-conor-bracken/) - Meet Conor Bracken Conor Bracken’s poems have been nominated for the Best of Net and received grants from Inprint and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, have appeared or are forthcoming in Adroit Journal, Forklift OH, Muzzle, The New Yorker, and THRUSH. A graduate of Virginia Tech, a former poetry editor for Gulf Coast, and the - [2015 Chapbook Fellow Anders Carlson-Wee](https://frostplace.org/anders-carlson-wee-2015-chapbook-fellow/) - Anders Carlson-Wee is a 2015 NEA Fellow. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Best New Poets 2012 & 2014, and elsewhere. He is the winner of Ninth Letter's 2014 Poetry Award and New Delta Review's 2014 Editors' Choice Prize. A recipient - [2016 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow Tiana Clark](https://frostplace.org/tiana-clark/) - Meet Tiana Clark Tiana Clark is the winner of the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at Vanderbilt University where she serves as a Commons Writer-in-Residence and the Poetry Editor for Nashville Review. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Rattle, Best New Poets 2015,Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana - [2014 Chapbook Fellow Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet](https://frostplace.org/lisa-gluskin-stonestreet-2014-chapbook-winner/) - Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s Tulips, Water, Ash was selected for the Morse Poetry Prize and published by University Press of New England. Her poems have been awarded a Javits fellowship and a Phelan Award, and have appeared in journals including Cream City Review, At Length, Quarterly West, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, 32 Poems, and Third Coast and - [2013 Frost Place Chapbook Fellow Jill Osier](https://frostplace.org/chapbook-winner-jill-osier/) - Meet Jill Osier JILL OSIER is the author of a letterpress chapbook, Bedful of Nebraskas (Sunnyoutside Press). Her work has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. Originally from northeast Iowa, she lives in Fairbanks, - [Poems by Vievee Francis](https://frostplace.org/vievee-francis-poems/) - THERE IS MUSIC IN MY HEAD by Vievee Francis where before there was only silence. Strings being bowed and plucked. Feet are tapping. There are hands kneading against the board. A pounding staff. Call and yelp. Water a-gurgle. There’s a music in my head like a clearing in the woods. Do you hear it? Lips - [Poems by Terry Blackhawk](https://frostplace.org/terry-blackhawk-poem/) - Provincetown, August by Terry Blackhawk She listened seven ways at once, walked to the end of Pier Two, then back again along Pier One. Humming, this Protea, dallying. Stuffing gone outta her then, innit, doll? Now she picks up her favorite pen and puts it to the paper she likes best. Jetsam bobbing there along - [Poems by Teresa Carson](https://frostplace.org/teresa-carson-poems/) - Return to Teresa Carson [accordion] [acc_item title="June 29, 1863"]Across the state of Ohio, across the counties of Ashtabula, Pickaway, Drake, Cuyahoga, and Stark, across the towns of Pigeon Run, Winesburg, Rome, and Paradise, women wash clothes on Mondays. The women of Ohio believe the Creator of all things is a Being of system and order - [Poems by Sally Ball](https://frostplace.org/sally-ball-poems/) - Plate 79 Crocodile Valley of the Kings, Egypt Dear Keats, why Italy? You’d have loved this crocodile, smiling with his eyes closed, one plunge from the meaty neck of a gazelle. O happy crocodile, O John, he looked like this for centuries before you lived and died, blissed out, savoring his knowledge before savoring his - [Poems by Rodney Jones](https://frostplace.org/rodney-jones-poems/) - Rain on Tin by Rodney Jones If I ever get over the bodies of women, I am going to think of the rain, of waiting under the eaves of an old house at that moment when it takes a form like fog. It makes the mountain vanish. Then the smell of rain, which is the - [Poems by Rich Villar](https://frostplace.org/rich-villar-poems/) - Back to Rich Villar Ars Poetica #8 A night like this will pass without sleep, and she is the first and last thought— at a keyboard, a notebook, a soft soundtrack coaxing the players keeping time in her stories. She will not tell her mind to play another's game. She will give no coin - [Poems by Rachel Eliza Griffiths](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/poems-by-rachel-eliza-griffiths/) - Return to Rachel Eliza Griffiths Small Prayer - [Poems by Patrick Phillips](https://frostplace.org/patrick-phillips-poems/) - Variations on a Text by Donald Justice By Patrick Phillips I will die in Brooklyn, in January, as snowflakes swarm the streetlamps and whiten the cornices of the sleeping brownstones. It will be a Sunday like today because, just now, when I looked up, it seemed that no one had ever remembered or imagined a - [Poems by Michael Klein](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/poems-by-michael-klein/) - Return to Michael Klein Harmonium Someone is putting the world back together – Aaron Smith Here’s what’s different: Bruce, who is now Sheila won’t join a gym because she’s still transitioning and can’t change clothes in either locker room. She’s between two rooms of time. And the country is different but the same—everything we talked - [Poems by Meg Kearney](https://frostplace.org/meg-kearney/) - Carnal by Meg Kearney with a line by Donald Hall I suppose squirrels have their hungers, too, like the one I saw today with the ass end of a mouse jutting from its mouth. I was in the park; I’d followed the stare of a dog, marveled as the dog seemed to marvel that the - [Poems by Matthew Olzmann](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/matthew-olzmann-poems/) - Return to Matthew Olzmann [accordion] [acc_item title="THE MINOTAURS"] Please someone go upstairs and check to see if the people who live above me are or are not Minotaurs… —Mike Scalise 1. The TV set: smashed Three of the four front windows: smashed. The medicine cabinet: mauled beyond recognition. Upstairs, the neighbors play like natural disasters. - [Poems by Martha Rhodes](https://frostplace.org/martha-rhodes-poems/) - Return to Martha Rhodes [accordion] [acc_item title="Elegy"] By Martha Rhodes My body given away, parts flown to other parts—a child receives my eyes, another my heart, the diseased organs remain, benign now. In death I am waiting for my soul to arrive that I may divide it equally among frightened neighbors. In death I pursue - [Poems by Marcus Jackson](https://frostplace.org/marcus-jackson-poems/) - KISS by Marcus Jackson Saving money the summer before moving to New York, I painted houses during days, nights in a restaurant kitchen hosing dishes, loading them into a steel washer that gusted steam until two a.m. Once, when I came home, my back and neck bidding for bed, asleep on the couch laid dad. - [Poems by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/lyrae-van-clief-stefanon-poems/) - Return to Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Bop: The North Star —Auburn, NY Polaris sits still in the sky and if I knew which one it was I could follow it all the way to Auburn. Oh, Harriet, who did not need the poise of freedom knocked into your head like sense, who found it more than - [Poems by Kevin Prufer](https://frostplace.org/kevin-prufer-poems/) - In a Beautiful Country by Kevin Prufer A good way to fall in love is to turn off the headlights and drive very fast down dark roads. Another way to fall in love is to say they are only mints and swallow them with a strong drink. Then it is autumn in the body. Your - [Poems by Joan Houlihan](https://frostplace.org/joan-houlihan-poems/) - WHAT EATS GRASS slow and bent- necked, eyed from the side, is deer. Through branches hung with bee-nest, swung, and the swarm hums the air. At the edge, one deer holds tall. Ay want what is not Ay-- furred antler stript to a shine. Flank. Hoof. Meat. When the head turns, Ay stand, aim the - [Poems by Joan Larkin](https://frostplace.org/joan-larkin-poems/) - EYE OF NEWT I was larval. I dreamed myself downstairs in pj’s, still in my coma. Bach, he said, and I lay next to the radio. Dark amber spread through my girl-brain. Eye of newt already nestled there, an egg glued to a twig. My pale, bespectacled brother set me on a leaf and watched - [Poems by Jeff Kass](https://frostplace.org/jeff-kass-poems/) - Sometimes everything you want by Jeff Kass Comes down to the way your girlfriend keeps checking her watch, keeps finding ways to remind you Prom Night is failing to live up to the hype and her anxious perspiration is not the same thing as free-fly sweat from dancing without worry and your best friend Bob - [Poems by Ilya Kaminsky](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/poems-by-ilya-kaminsky/) - Back to Ilya Kaminsky We Lived Happily During the War And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched - [Poems by Iain Haley Pollock](https://frostplace.org/iain-haley-pollock-poems/) - Beth David Cemetery, Long Island by Iain Haley Pollock I am the only man standing by the open grave without a yarmulke, with dreadlocks spilling onto the lapels of my suit jacket. Next to me Naomi stares at her grandfather's coffin. Under the distant roar of jets arcing over the Sound, three workers speak Caribbean - [Poems by Gregory Pardlo](https://frostplace.org/gregory-pardlo-poems/) - Written by Himself by Gregory Pardlo I was born in minutes in a roadside kitchen a skillet whispering my name. I was born to rainwater and lye; I was born across the river where I was borrowed with clothespins, a harrow tooth, broadsides sewn in my shoes. I returned, though it please you, through no - [Poems by Gibson Fay-Leblanc](https://frostplace.org/gibson-fay-leblanc-poems/) - Hockey Dad by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Once you have ice blocks for feet, icicle fingers and a lump in your throat to tremble your body with cold tomorrow, you doubt the sanity of waking at five, the eight-year-old on ice by six, blades carving shapes you can’t name. And when your boy looks through his coach’s - [Poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/poems-by-gabrielle-calvocoressi/) - Return to Gabrielle Calvocoressi Praise House: The New Economy -- after and for Ross Gay The rosemary bush blooming its unabashed blue. Also dumplings filled with steam and soup so my mouth fills and I bubble over with laughter. Little things. People kissing on bicycles. Being able to walk up the stairs and run back - [Poems by Dawn Potter](https://frostplace.org/dawn-potter-poems/) - [accordion] [acc_item title="Gołąbki"] By Dawn Potter 1979 which the aunts pronounced gowumkee you know cabbage rolls honey and packed into a crockpot pasted all over with pictures of happy brown daisies and then balanced them on the plush backseat of a cream-colored Delta 88 bought used off the lot from a dealer that Uncle Boy - [Poems by Cleopatra Mathis](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/poems-by-cleopatra-mathis/) - Return to Cleopatra Mathis [accordion] [acc_item title="CANIS"] It was a small comment, wasn’t it, about who they were —that last year on the dunes when all the town talk was of coyotes, prairie wolf in search of an ocean, those footprints instead of rabbits’ surrounding the shack or half-sunk in the cranberry bog just off - [Poems by Christine Casson](https://frostplace.org/christine-casson-poems/) - No Cold Heaven No cold heaven, though many houses on this block need paint and care: lopsided porch stairs, windows filmed with soot, facades an accidental patchwork of repair— cracked wood, sullen brick and stone. I turned away last night when two men fought, clawed one another in numbing cold, palms swathed in rags, a - [Poems by Afaa Michael Weaver](https://frostplace.org/poems-by-afaa-michael-weaver/) - Return to Afaa M. Weaver [accordion] [acc_item title="Spirit Boxing"] It is the tightness in the gut when the load is heavy enough to knock me over backwards, turn me back on my heel until my ankle cracks and I holler out Jesus, this Jesus of Joe Gans setting up for the next punch while taking - [2019 Poetry Seminar Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2019-poetry-seminar-faculty-and-fellows-2-2/) - Learn more about all Poetry Seminar faculty and fellows - [2019 Conference on Poetry & Teaching Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2019-conference-on-poetry-teaching-faculty-and-fellows-2/) - Learn more about all Conference on Poetry & Teaching faculty and fellows - [2019 Conference on Poetry Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2019-cop-faculty-fellows/) - Learn more about all Conference on Poetry faculty and fellows - [2018 Conference on Poetry Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2018-poetry-seminar-faculty-and-fellows-2-2/) - Learn more about all Conference on Poetry faculty and fellows - [2018 Poetry Seminar Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2018-poetry-seminar-faculty-and-fellows-2/) - Learn more about all Poetry Seminar faculty and fellows - [2017 Poetry Seminar Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2017-poetry-seminar-faculty-and-fellows/) - Learn more about all Poetry Seminar faculty and fellows - [2017 Conference on Poetry Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2017-conference-on-poetry-faculty-and-fellows/) - Learn more about all Conference on Poetry faculty and fellows - [2017 Conference on Poetry & Teaching Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2017-conference-on-poetry-teaching-faculty-and-fellows/) - Learn more about all Conference on Poetry & Teaching faculty and fellows - [Newsletter Archive](https://frostplace.org/news-and-events/newsletter-archive/) - [accordion] [acc_item title="April 19, 2016 - Meet Rich Villar, Faculty at The Frost Place"] [/acc_item] [acc_item title="April 19, 2016 - Meet Ilya Kaminsky, Faculty at The Frost Place"] [/acc_item] [acc_item title="April 12, 2016 - Make New Economies with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Conference on Poetry Faculty"] [/acc_item] [acc_item title="April 5, 2016 - 2016 Dartmouth Poet in Residence - [Gregory Pardlo Scholarship](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/gregory-pardlo-scholarship/) - The winner will receive a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place including room and board (valued at approximately $1,550), and will give a featured reading at the Seminar. This scholarship, which is funded by an anonymous donor, was named to honor Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and faculty at The - [A Day at the Conference](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/a-day-at-the-conference-on-poetry/) - After an afternoon break and dinner, you are shuttled from the White Mountain School to The Frost Place, Robert Frost’s historic home in Franconia, New Hampshire. As Robert Frost’s mailbox and porch come into view, the expanse of the White Mountains is revealed. Torches burn around Robert Frost’s barn, and poets are already in their - [Timeline of Robert Frost's Life](https://frostplace.org/about-us/timeline-of-robert-frosts-life/) - [News from The Frost Place Community](https://frostplace.org/news-and-events/blog/) - [hungryfeed url="frostplace.wordpress.com"] - [Faculty News](https://frostplace.org/news-and-events/faculty-news/) - [Alumni News](https://frostplace.org/news-and-events/alumni/) - We are accepting alumni news! Updates may be featured in our weekly newsletter. - [Virtual Tour](https://frostplace.org/museum/virtual-tour/) - [2020 Conference on Poetry Faculty](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/2020-conference-on-poetry-faculty/) - 1 - [Conference on Poetry and Teaching Details](https://frostplace.org/details/) - Conference on Poetry and Teaching Details During the Conference on Poetry and Teaching, faculty poets will present techniques for teaching, revising, and assessing poetry, both creatively and analytically. Participants will engage in exercises and discussions that illuminate specific elements of craft and pedagogy. Each day includes (1) a segment in which participants share their own - [Poetry Seminar Details](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/seminar-details/) - A Day at the Seminar The Poetry Seminar Becomes an Online Experience in 2020: Because the coronavirus pandemic has interrupted many people’s summer planning, we have redesigned the Poetry Seminar as an online experience, which will take place August 2 - 7. To participate, you’ll access the events via Zoom, a free videoconferencing platform. One - [Cart](https://frostplace.org/cart/) - [woocommerce_cart] - [2013 Dartmouth Poet in Residence Nicole Terez Dutton](https://frostplace.org/2013-dpir-nicole-terez-dutton/) - The 2013 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place Nicole Terez Dutton's work has appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, 32 Poems, Indiana Review, and Salt Hill Journal. Nicole earned an MFA from Brown University and has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Cave Canem and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her book, If One of - [2018 Conference on Poetry & Teaching Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/2018-conference-on-poetry-teaching-faculty-and-fellows/) - Learn more about all Conference on Poetry & Teaching faculty and fellows - [All Poetry Seminar Faculty](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/poetry-seminar-faculty/) - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-3/frequently-asked-questions/) - [Previous Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/previous-conference-on-poetry-faculty-and-fellows/) - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/frequently-asked-questions/) - [2016 Latin@ Scholar Diana Delgado](https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/latin-scholarship/2016-latin-scholar-diana-delgado/) - Meet Diana Marie Delgado Diana Marie Delgado received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and a BA in Poetry from University of California, Riverside. Her poetry chapbook, Late-Night Talks With Men I Think I Trust, selected by Cornelius Eady, won the Center for Book Arts 2015 Award. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, The - [All Conference on Poetry and Teaching Faculty and Fellows](https://frostplace.org/all-conference-on-poetry-and-teaching-faculty-and-fellows/) - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://frostplace.org/frequently-asked-questions/) - [Robert Frost](https://frostplace.org/robert-frost/) - xxx - [CPT Graduate Credit Guidelines](https://frostplace.org/cpt-credit-guidelines/) - Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching Graduate Credit Guidelines Those enrolled for graduate credit will be expected to attend all morning lectures, afternoon workshops, and evening readings over the four-and-a-half-day course of the conference. To receive graduate credit a final report should be mailed within 30 days of the end of the conference (unless - [Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place Gallery](https://frostplace.org/dpirgallery/) - [2013 Inspiration Panel](https://frostplace.org/2013-inspirationpanel/) - Inspiration Series Panel The first annual Inspiration Series Panel brings three poets-- businessman Bruce Willard, editor and designer Ryan Murphy, and Nancy Richardson who is involved in education development (and was a former Trustee of the Frost Place)--to discuss their paths to poetry. Their unique backgrounds, not in academia or teaching, offer an exciting addition - [The White Mountain School](https://frostplace.org/white-mountain-school/) - Housing and meals for program participants will be at the beautiful White Mountain School. Nestled among 250 acres of mountain woodlands and fields in the historic town of Bethlehem, NH, all dorms, classrooms, the fitness center, theater, and other school buildings are within easy walking distance of each other, and a short drive from The - [Conference on Poetry Scholarships and Discounts](https://frostplace.org/copscholdiscount/) - Conference on Poetry Scholarships and Discounts Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, please include in your letter a statement detailing need. Requests for scholarship must be received by April 15. Scholarship applicants will be asked to make a nonrefundable deposit of $100; final invoice amount will be determined following the Scholarship Committee’s decision regarding - [Teacher Consultants](https://frostplace.org/teacherconsultants/) - 2015 Teacher Consultants - [CPT Scholarships and Discounts](https://frostplace.org/cpt-scholarships-and-discounts/) - CPT Scholarships and Discounts A limited number of scholarships are available. 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Even worse, I feel folding fitted sheets into small neat rectangles that fit on shelves in an orderly fashion is beyond my abilities. I am not kidding. Every week when the sheets come out of - [The Frost Place Poet in Residence](https://frostplace.org/the-frost-place-poet-in-residence/) - [Discovery at The Frost Place](https://frostplace.org/news-and-events/discovery-at-the-frost-place/) - Preparing to open The Frost Place for the 2013 season, a piece of wood bearing familiar handwriting is discovered by a volunteer. - [Submit Your Event](https://frostplace.org/news-and-events/submit-your-event/) - Alumni are invited to submit their events using the form to the right. Please allow our admins one week to review your submission. Approved events will be posted to The Frost Place event calendar. - [Talking About Frost](https://frostplace.org/talkingaboutfrost/) - Talking About Frost Evening discussions with poet Baron Wormser Come one, Come all! This series, hosted at the Abbie Greenleaf Library in Franconia, NH is free and open to the public. Every first Tuesday through May, Baron Wormser, acclaimed poet, author and professor, will lead a discussion on a selected poem by Robert Frost. Frost's - [Donnelly Poem](https://frostplace.org/donnelly-poem/) - CRADLE-SONG When I signed for her ashes I received her, as once she received me into her lyric hold and let me ride anchor there, smaller than the letter alif. They gave her into my hands, seven pounds, two ounces, as once they had given me into her hands. I set her on the - [Jill Osier Poem](https://frostplace.org/jillosierpoem/) - L I T T L E T O W N S S H I N I N G I N T H E D I S T A N C E When the young man on the bus crosses his leg to settle into his book, a chunk of snow slips silent from his boot. - [Poetry Seminar Schedule](https://frostplace.org/seminarschedule/) - [calendar categories="11" filter=2 month=8 views= "agendaDay, basicWeek" scroll=true] - [Potter Poem](https://frostplace.org/potter-poem/) - Cover Song by Dawn Potter Once I had a boyfriend (you’ll laugh, I know) Who strolling at midnight through a yellow-brick alley Grasped both my cold hands and sweetly bellowed “My Girl” into the small wind that ebbed and sallied Between our shadows. I’d known him for a week. He stared into my eyes - [Tobin Poem](https://frostplace.org/tobin-poem/) - THE TURNPIKE by Daniel Tobin …an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat… You away, and me on the Peter Pan heading home from my own required remove, I’m drawn by the window’s broad reflection, the traffic passing along it like a nerve— an endless charge of cars inside the pane: the - [Celebrating Whitman in 2019](https://frostplace.org/news-and-events/celebrating-whitman-in-2019/) - Whitman celebration information. - [V. Francis Poem](https://frostplace.org/v-francis-poem/) - by Vievee Francis How delicious to say it, to allow it like hibiscus to wend over the tongue where it opens at the gate, lending its red, unknowable taste. What wonder the palate may embrace – in a flick behind the teeth: loquacious, “liepschen, liepschen.” Let us praise the labium that shapes such syllables, and - [Friendraiser](https://frostplace.org/friendraiser/) - [2013 COP Photo Page](https://frostplace.org/2013-cop-photo-page/) - [Thank You For Your Interest](https://frostplace.org/thank-you-for-your-interest/) - Thank you so much for your interest in The Frost Place. Someone will be back in touch with you as soon as possible to answer your question. - [2015 Application Forms For The Frost Place Poetry Programs](https://frostplace.org/all-applicationforms/) - Access all of the 2015 application forms for The Frost Place's Poetry Programs. Directions for Downloading and Submitting the Forms Save the file as a PDF to your computer. Use Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this, it is easily downloadable for free via this link. Fill in the required fields. 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