Maxine Kumin at Frost Farm July 8

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Maxine Kumin will be at Frost Farm when Hyla Brook Reading Series Continues July 8. (That's tomorrow!)

June 21, 2010, DERRY, NH – Internationally celebrated poet Maxine Kumin will appear at the Robert Frost Farm as part of the Hyla Brook Reading Series on Thursday, July 8, 2010, 6:30pm-8:30pm. Kumin, the former Poet Laureate of the U.S., will read from her newest poetry collection, Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010, as well as other work. Hyla Brook Poet Margaret Bobalek King of Derry, a long-time friend of Kumin’s, will also read. Held at the Robert Frost Farm at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28), the Reading Series is free and open to the public.

“This is our biggest event to date. I urge anyone with an interest in poetry to come down to the farm to hear Maxine Kumin read her work. Come early and take a stroll around the Frost Farm -- it’s beautiful this time of year,” said Robert Crawford, co-founder with Bill Gleed of the Hyla Brook Poets.

Maxine Kumin's 17th poetry collection is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010. She also has a new essay collection, The Roots of Things, and a children’s book about a black-and-white dog with an identity crisis, What Color Is Caesar? Her awards include the Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes, the Poets’ Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost Medals. She and her husband live on a farm in central New Hampshire with three rescued dogs and two very old horses.

Margaret Bobalek King won the 2006 Remy C. Orffeo poet’s prize from The Northwoods Press for Song To Shiva and Honorable Mention in The National Poetry Contest, Winter 2009, for Pokeweed, sponsored by The Poetry Society of New Hampshire. She is a poet, literary critic, short story writer, and freelance journalist, whose work has appeared in such widely diverse publications as The Poet’s Touchstone, Avocet, Polo/Players’ Edition Magazine, The Dan River Anthology, Angel Face, The Northwoods Anthology, The Derry News, The Poets’ Guide to New Hampshire 2010, and Yankee. In 2003, she published a book on education, Tadpole Tales, Teaching Children Reading and Journal Writing after 16 years of classroom teaching.

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, July 17, 2010, at the Frost Farm in Derry.