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Member Directory
The Frost Place
Conference on Poetry and Teaching
& Festival and Conference on Poetry
& Advanced Seminar
| Address: | The Frost Place, P.O. Box 74, , Franconia, NH 03580 | ||
| Phone: | 603-823-5510 | ||
| E-mail: | frost@frostplace.org | ||
| Website: | http://www.frostplace.org | ||
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Conference on Poetry and Teaching
| Contact Info: | Click here for general event information (contact, location, website, etc.) |
| Contact: | Sue Jessen |
| Location Address: | 158 Ridge road, Franconia, NH 03580 |
| E-mail: | sjessen@frostplace.org |
| Dates: | June 24 - 28, 2012 |
| Application Date: | May 30, 2012 |
| Tuition/Cost: | $675 tuition; meals $100 |
| Scholarships: | Yes; discounts also available |
| Genres: | Poetry |
| Faculty: | Baron Wormser, director; Dawn Potter, associate director; Luray Gross; Angela Patten |
| Description: | Over the course of four and one-half days, faculty poets will present specific techniques for teaching poetry including sample exercises and prompts which teachers will be invited to try out and then discuss. Each day will offer sessions devoted to the participants sharing their own teaching ideas - a popular element in prior conferences. In addition, participants will write poetry every afternoon under the guidance of Dawn Potter. On the first day of the conference Baron Wormser and Dawn Potter will go over the fundamentals of a poetry-based classroom. On Wednesday night, after the faculty poet reading, participants will have a chance to read their poems in the Henry Holt Barn. On the final full day there will be a session devoted to evaluating student poems and conducting a poetry workshop. The final morning session will give everyone an opportunity to discuss what has been learned and ways to implement new approaches. |
Festival and Conference on Poetry
| Contact Info: | Click here for general event information (contact, location, website, etc.) |
| Contact: | Sue Jessen |
| Location Address: | 158 Ridge road, Franconia, NH 03580 |
| E-mail: | sjessen@frostplace.org |
| Dates: | July 15-21, 2012 |
| Application Deadline: | June 15, 2012; early bird details on website |
| Tuition/Cost: | $1395 |
| Scholarships: | Yes; discounts also available |
| Genres: | Poetry |
| Faculty: | Martha Rhodes, director; Christopher Bursk; Cynthia Cruz; Vievee Francis; James Allen Hall; Daniel Tobin; Stephen Motika, poetry fellow. |
| Description: | Here is what you can expect each day: a faculty given discussion class or talk on an aspect of craft; a three-hour workshop for all participants; a period of silence for reading poetry; time to generate and revise poems. Each night, we'll carpool to the The Frost Place for readings in the Henry Holt Barn by faculty and guests. On the last night, the participants will read. Social gatherings, impromptu late night readings if you are so inclined, great food, and a warm community spirit. We'll live and write and think and talk poetry under one roof -- poetry and faculty -- commuters are welcome too! |
| Contact Info: | Click here for general event information (contact, location, website, etc.) |
| Contact: | Sue Jessen |
| Location Address: | 158 Ridge road, Franconia, NH 03580 |
| E-mail: | sjessen@frostplace.org |
| Dates: | August 8-13, 2012 |
| Application Deadline: | July 15, 2012 |
| Tuition/Cost: | $1,000; manuscript review (optional) $575 |
| Scholarships: | Yes; discounts also available |
| Genres: | Fiction |
| Faculty: | Patrick S. Donnelly, director; Reginald Dwayne Betts; Diane Seuss |
| Description: | In various ways the Seminar will encourage each participant to examine what parent models s/he has taken, what skills and strengths have been received, like poetry DNA, from those parents (as well as, perhaps, weaknesses or blind spots), and finally whether those models are working well for the present or whether new parents need to be chosen to move forward with different work.
The Seminar schedule features a daily morning presentation/discussion exploring aspects of craft and technique (with a close look at the work of our poetic parents); an afternoon workshop of participants' poems; and an evening reading (some by faculty poets and others featuring participants). Seminar participants will be divided evenly for workshops between the three workshop faculty, and will remain with the same faculty member for all five days. We anticipate that each workshop will have six to seven people. You'll have the option to say which of the three faculty members you'd like to work with, but we prefer that you trust us to make the match. Presentations, discussions, meals and readings will provide many opportunities for you to interact with faculty and guests other than your workshop leader. |




