The Frost Place 2010 Faculty

Jeanne Marie Beaumont, 2010 director of The Frost Place Advanced Seminar, is the author of Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004) and Placebo Effects (Norton, 1997), selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series. Her new collection Burning of the Three Fires will be out from BOA Editions in 2010. With Claudia Carlson, she co-edited the anthology The Poets’ Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003), and for seven years she was co-editor of the literary magazine American Letters & Commentary. Her poems have been published in magazines such as Denver Quarterly, The Nation, Harper’s, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, and World Literature Today, and in several anthologies including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, When She Named Fire, and The Norton Introduction to Literature. Her poem “Afraid So” was made by Jay Rosenblatt into a short film that has been shown at numerous festivals, where it has garnered several awards. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught at The Frost Place and Rutgers University. She currently teaches at The Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and in the Stonecoast MFA program. She is the former director of the Advanced Seminar. Her website is found at www.jeannemariebeaumont.com

Sharon Bryan is the author of four collections of poetry: Salt Air and Objects of Affection from Wesleyan University Press, Flying Blind from Sarabande Books, and Sharp Stars from BOA in 2009. She is also the editor of Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition, published by Norton, and co-editor (with William Olsen) of Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life, published by Sarabande. She has taught at universities around the country, most recently as Visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of Connecticut and has received two NEA Fellowships in Poetry and an Artist Trust grant from the Washington State Arts Council.

Martha Carlson-Bradley is the author of three collections of poetry: Season We Can't Resist (WordTech Editions, 2007) and two chapbooks, Beast at the Hearth (Adastra Press, 2005) and Nest Full of Cries (Adastra Press, 2000). Her poems have been published in such magazines as New England Review, Marlboro Review, Carolina Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Zone 3 and in anthologies, such as The Poets' Grimm (Story Line Press, 2003). Her awards include the Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society and a Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Carlson-Bradley lives with her family in New Hampshire, at the edge of a state forest. She works as a freelance editor and teaches in the Master of Arts in Professional Writing program at New England College.

Blas Falconer is the author of A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007) and the co-editor of two anthologies: Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010) and The Other Latino (University of Arizona Press, 2011). He is the recipient of a 2008 Individual Artist Grant and the 2009 Maureen Egen Literary Award from Poets and Writers. He coordinates the creative writing program at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and is the poetry editor of Zone 3 Magazine/ Zone 3 Press.

Tom Healy is the author of What the Right Hand Knows (Four Way Books, 2009). His poems and essays have appeared in BOMB, The Paris Review, Salmagundi, Tin House, The Yale Review, and other journals. He studied at Harvard and received an MFA from Columbia. He teaches at Pratt Institute and lives in New York and Miami.

Gray Jacobik, earned her Ph.D. in American and British Literature from Brandeis University. She holds the rank of University Professor Emeritus, having taught literature, with distinction, at Eastern Connecticut State University. A widely-published poet, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing and an Artist's Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Jacobik's work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Ontario Review, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares and many other print and on-line journals. She is the winner of The Yeats Prize, The Emily Dickinson Prize, and The Third Coast Poetry Prize. Her third book, The Double Task, received The Juniper Prize and was nominated for The James Laughlin Award and The Poet's Prize. The Surface of Last Scattering, a fourth collection, was selected by X. J. Kennedy as the winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Brave Disguises received the AWP Poetry Series Award. In 2002, she served as the Robert Frost Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place. From 2003 until 2009, Gray taught on the graduate faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program. Her sixth book, Little Boy Blue: A Memoir in Verse, is forthcoming from CavanKerry. She lives with her husband, Bruce Gregory, in Deep River, Connecticut.

Fred Marchant's most recent book of poetry, The Looking House (Graywolf Press, 2009) was named by Barnes and Noble Review as one of the five best books of poetry in 2009. He is also the author of Tipping Point, winner of the 1993 Washington Prize in poetry, and Full Moon Boat (Graywolf Press, 2000). A new and selected volume,House on Water, House in Air, was published by Dedalus Press, Dublin, Ireland, in 2002. Fred Marchant is also the co-translator (with Nguyen Ba Chung) of From a Corner of My Yard, poetry by the Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa, published in 2006 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. He is also the editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947 (Graywolf Press, 2008), a selection that focuses on the work done while he was a conscientious objector during World War II. He is Professor of English and the director of the Creative Writing Program, and director of The Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston. A graduate of Brown University, he earned a PhD from The University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought. He is a longtime teaching affiliate of The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He has taught workshops at sites across the country, including The Frost Place, and was the 2009 co-winner (with Afaa Michael Weaver) of the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club, given to poets whose “work is an inspiration to other poets.”

Lesléa Newman is the author of 57 books for adults and children including the poetry collections, Still Life with Buddy, Nobody’s Mother and Signs of Love. Her literary awards include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation. She recently served as Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.

Gregory Pardlo’s first book, Totem, won the American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize in 2007. His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, on National Public Radio and elsewhere. A finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award in poetry, he is recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received other fellowships from the New York Times, the MacDowell Colony, the Lotos Club Foundation and Cave Canem. Pardlo is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at George Washington University and divides his time between Brooklyn and Washington, DC

Dawn Potter is a poet and musician who has worked extensively with K-12 students and their teachers, both as guest artist and staff music teacher. Within the past year she has released two new books: How the Crimes Happened, which is her second poetry collection; and Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton, her memoir about copying out all of Paradise Lost word for word while living in the Maine woods. Currently she is working on a book-length narrative poem as well as a series of essays about rereading favorite novels, portions of which appear in the Sewanee Review, Threepenny Review, and Liverpool University's The Reader.

Martha Rhodes is the author of three collections of poetry: At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance and Mother Quiet. Her poems have been published in such journals as Agni, American Poetry Review, Columbia, Fence, New England Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She has also been anthologized widely, her work appearing in Agni 30 Years, Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is a founding editor and the director of Four Way Books in New York City.

Neil Shepard has published three books of poetry: Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat; I’m Here Because I Lost My Way; and This Far from the Source. His poems have appeared in literary magazines such as, Ploughshares, Paris Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Triquarterly, as well as online at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He founded the Writers Program at the Vermont Studio Center and directed it for eight years. He now teaches in the low-residency MFA Writing Program at Wilkes University (PA), as well as in the BFA Writing Program at Johnson State College (VT) where he edits the Green Mountains Review.

Baron Wormser is the author/co-author of twelve books, most recently the paperback edition of The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid, Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems, and a work of fiction entitled The Poetry Life: Ten Stories. He is a former poet laureate of Maine who teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program and the Fairfield University MFA Program and works widely in schools. Wormser has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.