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For 50 years, The Frost Place has fostered a vibrant community of poets through readings, conferences, and seminars, based at Robert Frost's farmhouse in Franconia, NH. Today, his home is a nonprofit house museum and center for poetry & the arts.

A red wheelbarrow, a steel coupler, and &ldquo;an oh! of pain&rdquo;: What, exactly, does depend upon &ldquo;things&rdquo; in poems? In the decades since William Carlos Williams wrote the now-famous phrase &ldquo;no ideas but in things,&rdquo; it has been axiomatic that poems should ground ideas and feelings in particulars&ndash;&ndash;things we can see and touch in the physical world. Most of us take for granted that part of a poet&rsquo;s work is to find the sensory details that evoke an object (or person or place) with exactness. Perhaps, too, it goes without saying that there is more to a complete poetic statement than vivid physical representation. In this workshop, we&rsquo;ll look closely at poems that enter into story and deep feeling through a particular object or group of objects, often with a dive into greater emotional intensity. We&rsquo;ll explore this process in work by Elizabeth Bishop, Hart Crane, Lucille Clifton, Eduardo Corral, Diana Delgado, Diane Seuss, and Jean Valentine. Where relevant to our exploration, we&rsquo;ll extend the notion of &ldquo;thingness&rdquo; to include memorable sensory images beyond those that are purely visual.The &ldquo;things&rdquo; that matter in these poems are particular to each poet and inhabit the imagination under pressure, resonating from a depth. Workshop participants will be asked to consider an object or objects that compel their attention and will take away suggestions for a warm-up exercise and longer poem prompt sparked by the examples we&rsquo;ve discussed. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1763094719/wysiwyg/qcohhzcpbouw9t25vydi.jpg" style="width: 329px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 329px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> Joan Larkin is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently&nbsp;Old Stranger (Alice James Books). Cold River (Painted Leaf Press) received the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry, and My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press) received the Publishing Triangle&rsquo;s Audre Lorde Award. A Lambda Literary Award for Poetry also went to the groundbreaking anthology she coedited with Carl Morse, Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (St. Martin&rsquo;s Press).Joan co-translated Sor Juana&rsquo;s Love Poems, a bilingual edition of poetry by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, with Jaime Manrique. Her prose includes If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations and Glad Day: Daily Meditations for GLBTQ People (Hazelden). Her plays include The AIDS Passion, The Living,&nbsp;If You Were Going to Get a Pet, and Wiretap. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and is a recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. A lifelong teacher, she has served on the faculties of Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence, Smith, and Columbia Chicago, among others. She lives in Northern New Jersey.

An Exploration of Thingness with Joan Larkin

This class will explore the dynamic interplay between syntax and the element of surprise in poetry. We&#39;ll examine how various contemporary and classic poets manipulate word order, sentence structure, and the tension between sentence and line to challenge reader&#39;s expectations and build layers of meaning. Through close discussion of works by Emily Dickinson, Ocean Vuong, Carl Phillips, Natalie Diaz, Ross Gay, and others, participants will gain an understanding of how syntax influences pacing and tone, creates meaning, and contributes to the overall impact of a poem with a view to applying this knowledge to their own writing. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1754795879/wysiwyg/s33llcai73vdcy4bxsmf.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Angela Narciso Torres is the author of What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books), Blood Orange (Willow Books Award for Poetry) and the chapbook, To the Bone&nbsp;(Sundress Publications). Recent work appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, 32 Poems, and Poetry Northwest. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers&#39; Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. She received the Yeats Poetry Prize (W.B. Yeats Society of New York) and was named one of NewCity Magazine&rsquo;s Chicago&#39;s Lit 50. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she lives in San Diego and serves as reviews editor for RHINO.

Twists, Turns & Tumbles: Syntax and the Art of Poetic Surprise with Angela Narciso Torres

Choosing a point of view for your poem is a very basic craft decision that could come up in any phase of drafting or revising a poem, and can affect every aspect of how the reader receives a poem. We&#39;ll briefly review the POVs available: there are six, though 3rd person may be further subdivided into limited, omniscient, and objective. Then we&#39;ll focus on first-person plural--what it&#39;s good for, what it may not be good for.&nbsp; <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1754107172/wysiwyg/mz3uerueg6e5qppscapc.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> <span data-sheets-root="1" fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67);" id="isPasted" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, Arial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); box-sizing: inherit;">Jennifer Franklin is the author of three poetry collections, including&nbsp;If Some God Shakes Your House&nbsp;(Four Way), finalist for the Paterson Prize and Julie Suk Award. Her work has been commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum, and published in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, &ldquo;poem-a-day&rdquo; on poets.org, The Nation, and Poetry Society of America&#39;s &ldquo;Poetry in Motion.&rdquo; She won a Pushcart Prize, a NYFA grant, and a CRCF Award. She is cofounder and cohost of the reading series &ldquo;Words Like Blades.&rdquo; Her new manuscript, A FIRE IN HER BRAIN is a series of epistolary poems to Virginia Woolf, Lucia Joyce, and Sylvia Plath. She teaches in Manhattanville&#39;s MFA program, Poets House, The Frost Place, 24Pearl Street &amp; her own manuscript revision workshops. Cost: $150

To We or Not to We: Considerations on First-Person Plural Point of View - A Lyric Question with Jennifer Franklin

Drawing inspiration from the natural beauty around us, this workshop offers participants an opportunity to take in nature and turn their observations into powerful and vivid poems. In this course, we&rsquo;ll study examples of celebrated poems that effectively capture the wonder and beauty of nature. We&rsquo;ll also discuss techniques such as metaphor, imagery, repetition, and sound, as well as cover effective use of line breaks. No experience necessary. About the Instructor<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1752509476/wysiwyg/qnyvqvumunhak2mddxwv.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><span fr-original-style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;' id="isPasted" style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;'>Jodie Hollander&rsquo;s work has appeared in&nbsp;<em fr-original-style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>The&nbsp;Poetry&nbsp;Review,&nbsp;Poetry&nbsp;Magazine, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review,&nbsp;Poetry, PN Review,&nbsp;The Kenyon Review,&nbsp;Poetry&nbsp;London, The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse,&nbsp;The New Criterion,&nbsp;The Rialto, Verse Daily<span fr-original-style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;' style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;'>, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. Her debut full-length collection,&nbsp;<em fr-original-style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>My Dark Horses<span fr-original-style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;' style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;'>, was published with Liverpool University Press &amp; Oxford University Press. Her second collection,&nbsp;<em fr-original-style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Nocturne<span fr-original-style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;' style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;'>, was also published with Liverpool &amp; Oxford University Press in 2023 and was longlisted for the Laurel Prize in nature writing. Hollander is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa. She is also the originator of &lsquo;Poetry in the Parks,&rsquo; in conjunction with several National Parks and Monuments in the US. In 2024, Hollander was the first poet in residence for the Elmet Trust in the Calder Valley, where she wrote and taught out of the childhood home of Ted Hughes. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.&nbsp;<a fr-original-style='box-sizing: inherit; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: color 0.18s, background-color 0.18s, border-color 0.18s; outline: none; color: rgb(229, 107, 75); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;' href="https://www.jodiehollander.com/" style='box-sizing: inherit; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: color 0.18s, background-color 0.18s, border-color 0.18s; outline: none; color: rgb(229, 107, 75); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; user-select: auto;' target="_blank">https://www.jodiehollander.com/</a>

Writing Nature in Place

John F. Kennedy famously said that&nbsp;Robert&nbsp;Frost, &ldquo;bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse.&rdquo; From his mastery of traditional verse forms and metrics, to depictions of rural New England, to his command of American colloquial speech, arguably, no poet is more essential to an understanding of American poetry than&nbsp;Robert&nbsp;Frost. In this course, we will examine several of Frost&rsquo;s poems closely, listen to him read his own work, and gather insights from his interviews and biography. We&rsquo;ll look at Frost&rsquo;s use of trimeter, iambic pentameter, and blank verse, consider his unmistakable tone and use of the dramatic monologue, consider themes such as duplicity, isolation, nature, and existential questioning, and then try our hand and our poems. This course is for anyone interested in investigating Frost more deeply and learning from one of the true masters. No experience necessary. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1752509803/wysiwyg/xjb8j8xkpaegf7i6lavj.jpg" style="width: 261px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 261px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> <span fr-original-style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;' id="isPasted" style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;'>Jodie Hollander&rsquo;s work has appeared in&nbsp;<em fr-original-style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>The&nbsp;Poetry&nbsp;Review,&nbsp;Poetry&nbsp;Magazine, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review,&nbsp;Poetry, PN Review,&nbsp;The Kenyon Review,&nbsp;Poetry&nbsp;London, The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse,&nbsp;The New Criterion,&nbsp;The Rialto, Verse Daily<span fr-original-style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;' style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;'>, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. Her debut full-length collection,&nbsp;<em fr-original-style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>My Dark Horses<span fr-original-style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;' style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;'>, was published with Liverpool University Press &amp; Oxford University Press. Her second collection,&nbsp;<em fr-original-style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Nocturne<span fr-original-style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;' style='color: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;'>, was also published with Liverpool &amp; Oxford University Press in 2023 and was longlisted for the Laurel Prize in nature writing.&nbsp;Hollander&nbsp;is the recipient&nbsp;of a MacDowell fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa. She is also the originator of &lsquo;Poetry&nbsp;in the Parks,&rsquo; in conjunction with several National Parks and Monuments in the US. In 2024,&nbsp;Hollander&nbsp;was the first&nbsp;poet&nbsp;in residence for the Elmet Trust in the Calder Valley, where she wrote and taught out of the childhood home of Ted Hughes. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.&nbsp;<a fr-original-style='box-sizing: inherit; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: color 0.18s, background-color 0.18s, border-color 0.18s; outline: none; color: rgb(229, 107, 75); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;' href="https://www.jodiehollander.com/" style='box-sizing: inherit; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: color 0.18s, background-color 0.18s, border-color 0.18s; outline: none; color: rgb(229, 107, 75); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; user-select: auto;' target="_blank">https://www.jodiehollander.com/</a>

Reading and Writing Robert Frost

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1735398141/nbrpctpwfwj8iau4iznu.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> 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.

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.

Reading and Writing Robert Frost with Jodie Hollander John F Kennedy famously said that Robert Frost, &ldquo;bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse.&rdquo; From his mastery of traditional verse forms and metrics, to depictions of rural New England, to his command of American colloquial speech, arguably, no poet is more essential to an understanding of American poetry than Robert Frost. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1765493097/wysiwyg/xarxfmc3cwcvsw7o1ko5.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> About Jodie Jodie Hollander&rsquo;s work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Poetry, PN Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry London, The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The Best Australian Poems of 2011,&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Best Australian Poems of 2015. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press &amp; Oxford University Press. Her second collection, Nocturne, was also published with Liverpool &amp; Oxford University Press in 2023 and was longlisted for the Laurel Prize in nature writing. Hollander is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa. She is also the originator of &#39;Poetry in the Parks,&#39; in conjunction with several National Parks and Monuments in the US. In 2024, Hollander was the first poet in residence for the Elmet Trust in the Calder Valley, where she wrote and taught out of the childhood home of Ted Hughes. In September of 2025, she was the visiting poet at Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Reading and Writing Robert Frost with Jodie Hollander

Writing Odes: Elevating the Everyday with&nbsp;Dilruba Ahmed <span data-sheets-root="1" fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="isPasted" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;">How might the ode illuminate and celebrate seemingly ordinary aspects of life in ways that reveal new understandings? Join us to unpack how form and content come together to celebrate both the elevated and the mundane in a curated packet of poetry. Together, we&rsquo;ll identify the key craft strategies at play in several contemporary odes, including work by Safia Elhillo, Ellen Bass, Lucille Clifton, and Kevin Young. In addition to our discussion, this class will include quiet writing time with poetry prompts inspired by key examples.&nbsp; About Dilruba Ahmed <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1765491025/wysiwyg/xwpcnqpcq5frfiimxt0y.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound. &nbsp;Her debut book, Dhaka Dust&nbsp;(Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize. &nbsp;Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Virginia Quarterly Review.&nbsp; Her work has also been anthologized in Best American Poetry; Halal If You Hear Me; New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims; They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets; and elsewhere. Ahmed received The Florida Review&rsquo;s Editors&rsquo; Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds B.Phil and M.A.T. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College&rsquo;s MFA Program for Writers. &nbsp;She has taught with Chatham University&rsquo;s MFA Program, Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, Hugo House, and elsewhere. &nbsp;In 2021, she joined the faculty at Warren Wilson College&rsquo;s MFA Program for Writers. <a data-fr-linked="true" fr-original-style="" href="//www.dilrubaahmed.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.dilrubaahmed.com</a> &nbsp;

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