Each spring, The Frost Place hosts an annual Young Poets Conference. Students from New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey have spent an exhilarating weekend together at the Homestead Inn and The Frost Place, with superb faculty poets who love working with younger writers. With writing prompts, workshops and readings as well as time to write, the Young Poets Conference offers a chance to explore your poetic voice while getting to know other writers in a unique and beautiful setting - the Homestead Inn in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, which has been managed by one family since 1802 - with a field trip to the nearby house and farm where poet Robert Frost and his family lived between 1915 and 1938.

Each summer, the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching brings together hard-working classroom teachers and highly skilled poet/teachers to share their experiences of how poetry is most effectively presented in the classroom - not as a fossilized system of literary tropes, but as a living art. Over the course of five days, nationally acclaimed poets will present very specific techniques for teaching poetry, including sample exercises and prompts that teachers will be invited to try out then discuss. Each day will offer sessions devoted to the participants sharing of their own teaching ideas, a popular element in past conferences. The final morning session will provide an opportunity to discuss what's been learned and ways to implement new approaches. And both faculty poets and participants will have the chance to read their poems in Robert Frost's historic barn, now a rustic auditorium/classroom.

Now entering in its thirtieth year, the Festival of Poetry is one of America's longest-running and most admired gatherings of poets. This is a daily immersion in listening, reflection, and conversation about the pleasures and challenges of poetic work. The Fellows poets are in residence throughout the week, with a different Guest Faculty poet present each day for a morning lecture, afternoon workshop, and evening reading. Participants rotate through workshops conducted by the Fellows and may express preferences for which Guest Faculty workshop they would like to attend. There will be time during the week for the composition of new work, and indeed at two of their daily workshops participants are asked to present a completely new poem and a new revision.

The Frost Place Seminar features a daily morning talk and discussion exploring aspects of craft and technique, with a close look at our poetic forebears; an afternoon workshop of participants' poems; and an evening reading, some of these readings by faculty poets and others featuring participants.

This is a unique opportunity for dedicated poets to delve intensely into the poetic process. Seminar participants will have their work-in-progress given generous and focused attention and will be invited to think in new ways about what can be accomplished in revision.

Enrollment is strictly limited to 16 participants. Priority will be given to participants in previous Frost Place programs, including the Conference on Poetry and Teaching, the Festival and Conference on Poetry, or the Frost Place Seminar, with a limited number of spaces available for qualified first-time Frost Place visitors.