The Frost Place is a museum and center for poetry and the arts based from Robert Frost’s former farmhouse in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This humble home was built in the 1860s, and like all old homes, requires quite a lot of love and skilled attention. Donations are used to maintain the house and its poetry programs. Friends of the Frost Place is the non-profit organization that operates The Frost Place. We sincerely appreciate your generosity.

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 attention on your work, and the vital exchanges of peers in workshop. Our goal is to support, refresh, and inspire you.Spend 4+ days with a select community of poets exploring your artistic work in the context of a rich variety of poetry ancestors and contemporaries.Discover how poetic lineages and community can provide models, provocations and correctives to widen your thinking about your own efforts.Learn from a distinguished and accomplished faculty how poets choose, imitate, enter into dialogue with, and sometimes argue with the work of our poetic ancestors and contemporaries.

You're invited to attend the faculty and guest readings for The Frost Place Poetry Seminar on Zoom!Readings will begin at 8:00 pm ET, followed by author Q&A, and last for one hour.Monday, 8/3: Adam Giannelli & Lauren CampTuesday, 8/4: Sydney Mayes & Patrick DonnellyWednesday, 8/5: Octavio R. Gonzalez and Armen DavoudianAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012), which was shortlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and the editor of High Lonesome (Oberlin College Press, 2006), a collection of critical essays on Charles Wright. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, New Criterion, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from several institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Program, James Merrill House, Frost Place, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Yaddo, and MacDowell. He has taught at Oberlin College, Hamilton College, Colby College, and Purdue University.Lauren Camp served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Is Is Enough (Texas Review Press, 2026) and In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024), which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park, and won the New Mexico Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute, a Dorset Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Best of the Net, and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, The Slowdown, Beloit Poetry Journal and numerous anthologies, and have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic. She founded and spearheaded the New Mexico Epic Poem Project, in partnership with New Mexico Arts, to amplify the creative voices of residents in rural, arts-underserved communities.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 in The Atlantic, Poets.org, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Kenyon Review. A graduate of the Vanderbilt University MFA, Mayes has received scholarships and support from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, Lighthouse Writers, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her prose is forthcoming in the anthology Between Our Legs: Silence Breaking Stories on Gynecological Health, published by the University of Iowa Press.Patrick Donnelly, director of The Frost Place Poetry Seminar since 2011, is the author of five books of poems, most recently Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, 2025), and Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019). Gregory Orr wrote “everything he writes is suffused with tenderness and intelligence, lucidity and courage.” Donnelly has taught at Smith College, Colby College, the Lesley University MFA Program, The Frost Place, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. His poetry has appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. With his spouse Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly translates classical Japanese poetry and drama. Their translations in The Wind from Vulture Peak (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013) were awarded the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Donnelly’s other awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and an Amy Clampitt Residency Award.Octavio R. Gonzalez is a queer Dominican American poet and scholar, and has published two books of poetry (Limerence, 2023; The Book of Ours, 2009), as well as a monograph of literary criticism (Misfit Modernism, 2020). His poems appear in Latino/a journals and queer publications, including The Latino Book Review, OCHO, Lambda Literary Anthology, Puerto del Sol, and Indolent Press.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 elsewhere. Davoudian is the author of The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House), which won the Northern California Book Award in Poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. His earlier chapbook, Swan Song, won the Frost Place/Bull City Press chapbook competition. His article, “Poems in Books, Poems against Books,” was co-winner of the Lesley Lee Francis Prize for Best Scholarship on Frost from the Robert Frost Society. Davoudian is also the translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch (Ugly Duckling Presse) by Fatemeh Shams.By registering, you support our mission to foster the creation and appreciation of poetry.