Robert Frost Farm
Hyla Brook Poets
Inviting guest speakers to Derry to celebrate the work of America's foremost poet is a tradition at the farm. Lectures are held in the Farm's barn theater beginning at 2:00 pm and are open to the public free of charge.
Programs are made possible by grants from the New Hampshire Humanities Council and are sponsored by the Division of Parks and Recreation, the Robert Frost Homestead Trustees, and the Friends of the Robert Frost Farm.
The Frost Farm, a national historic landmark, is located on NH Route 28, 1-3/4 miles south of the traffic circle in Derry, NH.
For more information, call (603) 432-3091.
Programs are free (except appraisals) and open to the public
Frost Farm's 2012 Hyla Brook Reading Series Opens May 17
Poet Maudelle Driskell Featured
May 3, 2012, DERRY, NH – The Frost Farm's 2012 Hyla Brook Reading Series Season starts on Thursday, May 17, 2012, 6:30-8:30pm with a reading by Maudelle Driskell, executive director of The Frost Place in Franconia, N.H.
This kicks off a stellar season, which also includes appearances by poets Len Krisak, Gary Margolis, Linda Pastan and Sharon Olds. The Reading Series, held in the Robert Frost Farm located at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28), is free and open to the public. An Open Mic follows the readings and all audience members are invited to share their work.
The 2012 Hyla Brook Reading Series Features:
Maudelle Driskell, Featured Reader, May 17, 2012
Maudelle Driskell, the Executive Director of The Frost Place in Franconia New Hampshire, holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, awarded by Poetry magazine and the Modern Language Association. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, CAIRN, New Orleans Review, All Shook Up, The Made Thing, The Cortland Review, and Inch. She is a past winner of the Agnes Scott Writer's Festival, has been a featured reader at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, the New Hampshire Poetry Society, and was a featured poet at The Millennial Gathering of the Writers of the New South at Vanderbilt University. She was a founding editor of The Atlanta Review.
Len Krisak, Featured Reader, June 14, 2012
Len Krisak has taught at Brandeis, Northeastern University and Stonehill College. His two chapbooks, Midland and Fugitive Child, came out in 1999 from Somers Rocks Press and Aralia Press, respectively. In 2000, his work Even as We Speak won the Richard Wilbur Prize and was published by the University of Evansville Press. His other published works include: If Anything (WordPress, 2004); Ovid's Odes of Horace Amatoria, a complete translation (Carcanet Books, 2006); and Virgil's Ecologues, a complete translation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). He is a past recipient of Robert Penn Warren and Robert Frost Prizes and several awards from the New England Poetry Club, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, and numerous other organizations. He is the former winner of GoldPocket.com National Trivia Competition and is a four-time Champion on Jeopardy!
Gary Margolis, Featured Reader, July 12, 2012
Gary Margolis Ph.D, is Executive Director of College Mental Health Services Emeritus and Associate Professor of English and American Literatures (part-time) at Middlebury College. He was a Robert Frost and Arthur Vining Davis Fellow and has taught at the University of Tennessee, Vermont and Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences. His third book, Fire in the Orchard was nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His poem, "The Interview" was featured on National Public Radio's "The Story." Boston's ABC Channel 5 interviewed him on the Middlebury campus reading his poem, "Winning the Lunar Eclipse," after the 2004 World Series. His newest book of poems is Below the Falls.
Linda Pastan, Featured Reader, August 9, 2012
Linda Pastan grew up in New York City, graduated from Radcliffe College, and received an MA from Brandeis University. She has published 13 volumes of poetry, most recently Traveling Light. Two of these books have been finalists for the National Book Award. Pastan's poems have appeared in many journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry. She has read her work at many universities including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton as well as at such places as The Library of Congress, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Dodge Festival. She has been Poet Laureate of Maryland, and in 2003 she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. She lives with her husband in Potomac, Maryland.
Sharon Olds, Featured Reader, September 13, 2012
Sharon Olds is the author of nine books of poetry. The Dead and the Living received the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and The National Book Critics Circle Award, and One Secret Thing was a finalist for the Forward Prize. She teaches at New York University. Stag's Leap will be out in 2012.
The Hyla Brook Poets' monthly writing workshop will continue to meet on the third Saturday of the month at 10am at the Frost Farm.
For questions, please contact Robert Crawford at bobik9@aol.com or visit http://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets
The Frost Farm is located 1 ¾ miles south of the Derry Circle on NH 28. For further information call (603) 432-3091. www.robertfrostfarm.org