Hyla Brook Reading Series Returns to Frost Farm

Diane Lockward is the featured poet for the Hyla Brook Reading series at Robert Frost Farm. Here is the press release with the details:

DERRY, NH – The Hyla Brook Reading Series returns to its summer home at the Robert Frost Farm at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28) this month. The first reading of the season will take place on Thursday, June 17, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm, with a special appearance by award-winning poet Diane Lockward. Hyla Brook Poet Midge Goldberg of Derry is also featured. The Reading Series is free and open to the
public.

“Hearing poetry at the Frost Farm is an experience all its own,” said Robert W. Crawford, co-founder with Bill Gleed, of the Hyla Brook Poets group and reading series. “This season, we are fortunate to host celebrated poets such as Diane, Maxine Kumin, and Rhina P. Espaillat and we welcome everyone to attend. During the winter months, the Hyla Brook Reading Series is held at BeanTowne Coffee House & Café in Hampstead. From June through September, the readings take place at the Frost Farm. Except for this June, readings are on the second Thursday of each month.

Diane Lockward is the author of three poetry books, most recently, Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve's Red Dress. Her poems have been included in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 360 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry
Website and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times, and have been published in such journals as Harvard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writers Almanac. She lives in northern New Jersey and works as a poet-in-the-schools for both the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

Midge Goldberg's poetry has appeared nationally and internationally, in such
journals as First Things, Measure, Light, Alehouse Press, The Atlanta Review, and Cadenza. Most recently, one of her poems was included in Poetry Speaks Who I Am, a poetry anthology aimed at teenagers, from the editor of the Poetry Speaks series. Another was selected by the McGowan Art Gallery in Concord, NH, to be displayed in the window during their February Love, Lust, and Desire art exhibit. She was a finalist in the 2008 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Contest. Poems and
translations of hers have appeared in the anthology European Romantic Poetry, published by Longman; the Powow River Anthology; and Rhyming Poems, among others. Her first book, Flume Ride, was published in 2006 by David Robert Books. She was the first recipient of an MFA from UNH, and she has taught poetry at Chester College of New England. She works as a web designer and lives in Derry.

An Open Mic will follow the readings and all audience members are invited to share their work.

The Hyla Brook Poets group organizes the monthly reading series as well as a monthly writing workshop, which meets on the third Saturday of the month at
10am. The next workshop takes place on Saturday, June 19, 2010, at the Frost Farm in Derry. For questions, please contact Robert Crawford.