DERRY, NH, April
18, 2016 – The Robert Frost Farm offers exceptional opportunities to poetry
lovers and learners during its 2016 season.
The Hyla Brook Reading Series, now in its 8th season,
kicks off on Thursday, May 19, 2016, 6:30-8:30pm with poet Anton
Yakovlev. Originally from Moscow, Russia,
Yakovlev lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey and works as a college textbook editor.
He studied filmmaking and poetry at Harvard University. His work is published
or forthcoming in The New Yorker, Fulcrum, American Arts
Quarterly, Measure, The Raintown Review, The
New Verse News and elsewhere. He is the author of two chapbooks.
Additionally,
Chester resident and Hyla Brook Poet Midge Goldberg will read from her new
collection, Snowman’s Code, winner of the 2015 Richard Wilbur
Award, and other work.
The event
launches this year's series of nationally acclaimed poets reading in the
intimate setting of Robert Frost’s barn. The season also features appearances
by Timothy Steele (June 17), New Hampshire Poet Laureate Alice Fogel (July 14), Melissa Balmain (Aug. 11), and
Johnny Longfellow (Sept. 8).
The series, held
in the Frost Farm located at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28), is free and open to the
public. An Open Mic follows the readings and all audience members are invited
to share their work.
The June reading
highlights the winner of the Annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry, and
is the kick off event for the 2nd Annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference on June 17-19, 2016.
Founded in 2015,
the conference provides two days of intense instruction by award-wining poets
Timothy Steele, Midge Goldberg, A.M. Juster, Deborah Warren, and Alfred Nicol.
The instructors will immerse participants in the art and craft of formal poetry
writing, valuable skills for both free verse poets and formalists. Through
generous support, this special weekend has been modestly priced for all
participants.
Starting in May,
the Hyla Brook Poets’ monthly writing workshop will meet on the third Saturday
of the month at 10am at its summer home at the Frost Farm.
About Frost Farm Poetry
Frost Farm Poetry’s
mission is to support the writing and reading of poetry, especially metrical
poetry. The Hyla
Brook Poets started in 2008 as a monthly poetry workshop. In March 2009, the
monthly Hyla Brook Reading Series launched with readings by emerging poets as
well as luminaries such as Maxine Kumin, Sharon Olds and Richard Blanco. From
there, the Frost Farm Poetry Prize for metrical poetry was introduced in 2010,
with the Frost Farm Conference beginning in 2015.
For further
information, email hylabrookpoets@gmail.com,
or visit www.frostfarmpoetry.org
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