 Robert and Elinor Frost owned this house from 1915 to 1920, and some of the poet's most enduring poems were written here. Since 1977 a contemporary poet has been awarded a residency each summer. |
News Clips From The Frost Place
SCHEDULE OF SUMMER READINGS FROST DAY 2009 FESTIVAL TO RETURN IN 2010 THIS SUMMER'S CONFERENCES ARE FILLED RESIDENT POET ARRIVES JULY 3 |
“There is no other poetic institution in the United States that
feels more consecrated to the poem itself.”
Donald Hall, 14th U.S. Poet Laureate
The Museum
Programs About the Frost PlaceContact Us
P.O. Box 74 , Ridge Road, Franconia, NH 03580
Telephone: (603) 823–5510
site by John Lehet
See the summer museum schedule here
2009 conferences
Conference on Poetry and Teaching
June 28 – July 2, 2009
Frost Place Advanced Seminar
August 2 – 7, 2009
Frost Place Intensive Workshop August 3-6, 2009
The Frost Place has recently been awarded support from the Adolf and Virginia Dehn Foundation, the Samuel P. Hunt Foundation, the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, the New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP), the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance, The Corporate Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and through the Town of Franconia, the National Endowment for the Arts.