The Frost Place

05/30/2026

We woke up to a "dust of snow" in the mountains today. The view from Robert Frost's front porch is always breathtaking!

05/23/2026

The bees are buzzing, the apple trees are blooming, and Robert Frost's White Mountain farmhouse is now open! Visit us Thursday - Monday from 11am - 4pm.

05/07/2026

The Slowdown is always a delight, but of course, we're partial to the Robert Frost references in this episode featuring a poem from Armen Davoudian, this summer's formalist track leader at The Frost Place Poetry Seminar.

05/06/2026

Did you know former US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass, was the Frost Place's second poet-in-residence in 1978? Check out his new book from Copper Canyon Press, A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World.

05/06/2026

Congratulations to all the finalists and especially to our Program Director, Patrick Donnelly, whose latest book, Willow Hammer, is longlisted for the Mass Book Awards for Poetry!

Mass Center for the Book is excited to announce longlisted titles across five categories, these 12 books have been nominated in POETRY:
"An Optimism" by Cameron Awkward-Rich (Persea)
"Preverbal" by Carroll Beauvais (Lit Fox Books)
"Cadet" by Benjamin Bellet (Staircase Books)
"In the Good Years" by Laura Cresté (Four Way Books)
"The Last Beast We Revel In" by Noah Davis (CavanKerry Press)
"Willow Hammer" by Patrick Donnelly (Four Way Books)
"Jailbreak of Sparrows" by Martín Espada (Knopf)
"Perfect Disappearances" by Paul Hostovsky (Kelsay Books)
"Groceries" by Nora Claire Miller (Fonograf Editions)
"One Trail of Longing, Another of String" by Carla Panciera (Bordighera Press)
"Goat, Goddess, Moon" by Catherine Strisik (Holy Cow! Press)
"To Wildness" by Julia Thacker (The Waywiser Press)

More info at https://www.massbook.org/mass-book-awards

04/19/2026

The Frost Place Poetry Seminar will be held August 2-6. Engage with a select community of poets exploring your artistic work in the context of a wide variety of poetry ancestors and contemporaries. Study with Armen Davoudian, Lauren Camp & Patrick Donnelly this summer.

Read more: https://frostplace.org/programs/poetry-seminar-2025/

04/16/2026

We are delighted to announce that our 2026 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place is Adam Giannelli! Adam will join us in Franconia to stay at Frost’s former farmhouse this summer to do his work as a poet and give several readings in the area.

Read more: https://frostplace.org/adam-giannelli-dartmouth-poet-in-residence/
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04/15/2026

Congratulations to all of this year's Guggenheim Fellows, and especially to our former poet-in-residence, Paula Bohince! Paula's latest book, A Violence, was released in 2025: https://paulabohince.com/violence.html