Sundays in the Barn with Bob: A new community open-mic-style series hosted by The Frost Place in Franconia, NH.
Sundays, July 13 – August 24 from 3pm – 4:30pm
July 13, Sydney Lea: Author of twenty-three books, Sydney Lea is a former poet laureate of Vermont, a former Pulitzer Prize finalist, the winner of the 1998 Poets’ Prize, and the Vermont Governor’s Award of Excellence in the Arts in 2021, among many other accolades. He is a champion of conservation efforts and a longtime friend of the Frost Place. His most recent book is titled Now Look (Down East Press, 2024). Syd lives in Newbury, VT.
July 20 Kerrin McCadden: Kerrin McCadden is the author of American Wake,
finalist for the New England Book Award, and Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. She lives in South Burlington, Vermont and thinks about Neanderthals a lot.
July 27 Beth Kanell: Beth Kanell’s northeastern Vermont poems seek comfortable seats in small, well-lit plates, including Lilith Magazine, The Comstock Review, Gyroscope Review, and many others. She also writes feature articles, short stories, reviews, and novels, most recently, The Bitter and the Sweet (All Things That Matter Press, 2024).
Aug. 3 Kyle Potvin: Kyle Potvin’s full-length poetry collection is Loosen. Her chapbook, Sound Travels on Water, won the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award, and Kyle won The Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry 2024—Sonnet Award.
Aug. 10 Meg Kearney and Carlene M. Gadapee
Meg Kearney’s All Morning the Crows won the 2020 Washington Prize and spent six months on SPD’s poetry bestseller list. Her ninth book, a heroic crown of sonnets, is titled Cardiac Thrill (2025). She lives in New Hampshire.
Poet and English teacher Carlene M. Gadapee lives in Littleton with her husband, several fruit trees, and a beehive. Her chapbook, What to Keep (Finishing Line Press, 2025), joins her poems and reviews in many journals including Smoky Quartz, Touchstone, Gyroscope Review, Vox Populi, and MicroLit Almanac. Her second chapbook, Relearning the Body, is forthcoming in 2026.
Aug. 17 Rodger Martin: Rodger Martin’s manuscript collection, The Sleeping Dogs of Lubec, was shortlisted for the 2024 Granite State Poetry Book Award and will be published by NatureCulture books in 2025. As a result of winning a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship in fiction, his first collection, A Martian Perspective: The Nemo Poems, was published in 1990, and new and revised edition was published by NatureCulture Books (2025).
Aug. 24 Jennifer Militello: Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the forthcoming hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen (Tupelo Press, 2026), named a finalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, and five collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021). She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.