Frost Place | |
 The Frost Place in 2008 | |
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| Location | Ridge Road Franconia, New Hampshire, United States |
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| Coordinates | 44°12′46″N71°45′27″W / 44.21278°N 71.75750°W |
| Area | 9 acres (3.6 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 76000126 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 30, 1976 |
The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
According to local family lore, poet Robert Frost spotted this property on the west side of Franconia's Ridge Road in 1915 while looking for a home in the area. He purchased it from farmer Willis Herbert, for whom he supposedly procured an adjacent property. The house is 1½ stories in height, with a long front facade covered by a porch. The facade affords fine views of the Franconia Range and Mount Lafayette. [2]
Frost and his family lived in the house until 1920, and spent their summers there for nearly twenty years. The Frost Place was founded in 1976 when the farm was purchased by the town of Franconia, restored, and given its name, opening as a museum in 1977. [3] [4] [5] Since 1977, the Frost Place has awarded a resident poet award to an emerging American poet, which includes a stipend and the opportunity to live and write in the house during the summer. [3] [6]
From 2013 until 2022, The Frost Place offered an annual chapbook prize, with the winning chapbook published by Bull City Press. [3] [7] Past winners include Jill Osier, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Anders Carlson-Wee, Tiana Clark, Yuki Tanaka, Cassandra Bruner, Aa Hee Lee, and Ethan Chua.
In 2024, The Frost Place hired poet Patrick Donnelly to lead as Program Director. He continues to direct the annual Poetry Seminar. For many years, The Frost Place sponsored a Conference on Poetry, and a Conference on Poetry and Teaching. The Conference on Poetry was directed by poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi, [8] with poet Ross White serving as Associate Director. The Conference on Poetry and Teaching and the Writing Intensive was directed by poet Dawn Potter; associate director was poet and teacher Kerrin McCadden.
A board of trustees assumed responsibility for the management of the museum and associated programs, and Donald Sheehan served as executive director until 2005. In 2006, the trustees appointed Jim Schley to be Sheehan's successor. [9] From the fall of 2008 until April 2011 the trustees managed The Frost Place. [3] Maudelle Driskell was named executive director in April 2011 and served until 2023, when Stacy Holmes was hired as Interim Executive Director in the fall of that year.
| Year | Poet |
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| 1977 | Katha Pollitt |
| 1978 | Robert Hass |
| 1979 | Gary Miranda |
| 1980 | William Matthews |
| 1981 | Mary Jo Salter |
| 1982 | Cleopatra Mathis |
| 1983 | Denis Johnson |
| 1984 | Sherod Santos |
| 1985 | Kathy Fagan |
| 1986 | Christopher Gilbert |
| 1987 | Pattiann Rogers |
| 1988 | John Engels |
| 1989 | Julie Agoo |
| 1990 | Rosanna Warren |
| 1991 | Stanley Plumly |
| 1992 | Robert Cording |
| 1993 | Sharon Bryan |
| 1994 | Mark Halliday |
| 1995 | Luci Tapahonso |
| 1996 | David Graham |
| 1997 | Jeffrey Skinner |
| 1998 | Sue Ellen Thompson |
| 1999 | Mary Ruefle |
| 2000 | Mark Cox |
| 2001 | B. H. Fairchild |
| 2002 | Gray Jacobik |
| 2003 | Adrienne Su |
| 2004 | Major Jackson |
| 2005 | Laura Kasischke |
| 2006 | Robert Farnsworth |
| 2007 | Jody Gladding |
| 2008 | James Hoch |
| 2009 | Rigoberto González |
| 2010 | Adam Halbur |
| 2011 | K. A. Hays |
| 2012 | Paula Bohince |
| 2013 | Nicole Terez Dutton |
| 2014 | Rebecca Foust |
| 2015 | Todd Hearon |
| 2016 | Rose McLarney |
| 2017 | Christina Hutchins |
| 2018 | Nicole Homer |
| 2019 | Matthew Minicucci |
| 2023 | Jessica Jacobs |
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