The Trustees of the Frost Place, a museum and arts center based at Robert Frost’s historic homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire, have announced that the 2007 Resident Poet at the Frost Place will be Jody Gladding of East Calais, Vermont.
Since 1977, the Frost Place has awarded this fellowship each summer to an emerging American poet, including a cash stipend and the opportunity to live and write in the house for several months. Previous Frost Place Resident Poets have included Katha Politt, Robert Hass, Rosanna Warren, Cleopatra Mathis, Mary Ruefle, and Major Jackson. The aim of the award, which doesn’t accept applications, is to provide sustained and hospitable working time for a poet who is at an artistic crossroads comparable to that faced by Robert Frost in 1915 when he moved to Franconia, and when he had not yet published a book in the United States and was therefore not well known.
Jody Gladding is a translator as well as poet. Her translations from French to English include Sylviane Agacinski’s Time Passing (2003, Columbia University Press), Michel Pastoureau’s The Devil’s Cloth (2001, Columbia University Press), and Pierre Moinot’s As Night Follows Day (2001, Welcome Rain). Her translation of Jean Giono’s The Serpent of Stars (Archipelago, 2004) was a finalist for the 2004 French–American Translation Prize. She is the author of Stone Crop, which was the 1993 Yale Younger Poets award winner, and she has also received a Whiting Writers Award in poetry. In 2000, Gladding was selected by then Vermont State Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt to participate in a Readers Digest Foundation-funded program called “The Poet Next Door,” working directly with Vermont high school students in person and through an interactive television network. Gladding also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. Her most recent book is The Moon Rose (Chester Creek Press, 2006), with accompanying woodcuts by Susan Walp.
In addition to hosting the residency, the Frost Place sponsors four annual gatherings that draw participants from across the U.S., including the Young Poets Conference (April 27–29, 2007), the Conference on Poetry and Teaching (June 25–29, 2007), the Festival and Conference on Poetry (July 29–August 4, 2007), and the Frost Place Seminar (August 5–10, 2007).
The Town of Franconia and The Frost Place are supported in part by New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information, please contact Frost Place Director Jim Schley at (603) 823–5510
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