| Frost Day July 11, at 2:00 p.m., 2010 |
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Conference on Poetry and Teaching June 27 – July 1, 2010 |
| Festival and Conference on Poetry July 8-14, 2010 |
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Frost Place Advanced Seminar August 8 – 13, 2010 |
| Professional Development in the Schools | |
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Frost Day
Held each year in early July, this is an annual celebration of Robert Frost established by official act of New Hampshire Governor Hugh Gallen.
In 2010, Frost Day will be Sunday, July 11. A celebration will take place at The Frost Place at 2:00 p.m.
The 11th Annual Conference on Poetry and Teaching
June 27 – July 1, 2010
featuring conference director Baron Wormser and associate director Dawn Potter with faculty poets Sharon Bryan, Lesléa Newman and Neil Shepard.
2009 Poetry and Teaching Conference Participants
A unique opportunity for classroom teachers to work closely with their peers and a team of illustrious poets who have expertise and enthusiasm for sharing poetry with young people. An immersion in poetry that’s both practical and inspirational . . .
Read more about the 2010 Conference on Poetry and Teaching . . .
The 31st Annual Festival and Conference on Poetry
July 8-July 14, 2010
featuring conference director Martha Rhodes and faculty members Martha Carlson-Bradley, Christina Davis, Blas Falconer, Tom Healy,Cleopatra Mathis, Gregory Pardlo, Kevin Prufer, Ellen Doré Watson and Baron Wormser.
Lectures, talks and craft panels and fifteen hours of workshops will be held at The White Mountain School and The Frost Place, with nightly readings at The Frost Place..
Read more about the 2010 Festival and Conference on Poetry . . .
Read more about the 2010 Advanced Seminar...
2009 Seminar faculty Jeffrey Harrison, Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Martha Collins
Professional Development in the Schools
For the past decade The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire has sponsored a week-long conference for classroom teachers that focuses on how poetry is taught. Over the course of these conferences much experience has been gained about how poetry can be effectively and enjoyably taught and how poetry can answer to every aspect of the language arts curriculum – writing, reading, listening skills, grammer, and vocabulary – at every school level. Now The Frost Place is offering to bring its personnel to your school to make poetry come alive every day in the classroom.
We are excited to be offering this project to schools throughout the United States. Over the years, teachers at the conference have wished they could bring The Frost Place home with them. Now they – and you – can.
In July and August, The Frost Place hosts a poet-in-residence who lives and writes in Frost's farmhouse, offering three public readings during the summer. The Trustees of The Frost Place have awarded the 2010 Resident Poet fellowship to Adam Halbur. Adam Halbur was born in 1976 and grew up feeding rabbits, chickens, pigs and steers and milking goats in the rural Midwest. He is the product of German farming immigrants that stretch back five generations from Wisconsin to Nebraska to Iowa and of newer arrivals from Denmark, Lithuania, Bohemia and French Canada who included a painter, a single mother, a doctor and probably a carpenter. Much of Halbur’s first collection of poems draws on this history as well as on his time as a small-town newspaper reporter.
From the age of thirteen, he went away to school and was largely influenced by friars, monks and nuns, receiving his secondary education at Saint Lawrence Seminary, Wis., and his post-secondary at Saint John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict, Minn. He earned a B.A. in English literature with studies in poetry in 1998 and completed his M.F.A. in 2003 at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, N.C. Though he has held various jobs as a factory worker, park attendant, home insurance audit reviewer and writer and editor, he has taught English as a second language at Japanese and American universities since 2007 to people of various origins, including Japan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, China, Vietnam, Germany and Mexico. He is currently an associate lecturer at the ESL Institute at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, but with his wife, son and daughter, continues to split his time between their two home countries of the U.S. and Japan.
Halbur published his first book of poems, Poor Manners, in July 2009 in Tokyo with Ahadada Books, the small press of Maryland native and poet Jesse Glass, a professor at Meikai University. His work has also appeared in the anthology Never Before: Poems about First Experiences (Four Way Books, 2005) and in magazines such as The Fourth River, Fauquier Poetry Journal and Dunes Review.
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