Robert Frost Farm
Hyla Brook Poets
Inviting guest speakers to Derry to celebrate the work of America's foremost poet is a tradition at the farm. Lectures are held in the Farm's barn theater beginning at 2:00 pm and are open to the public free of charge.
Programs are made possible by grants from the New Hampshire Humanities Council and are sponsored by the Division of Parks and Recreation, the Robert Frost Homestead Trustees, and the Friends of the Robert Frost Farm.
The Frost Farm, a national historic landmark, is located on NH Route 28, 1-3/4 miles south of the traffic circle in Derry, NH.
For more information, call (603) 432-3091.
Programs are free (except appraisals) and open to the public
David Berman Closes Out 2011 Season
At Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series
Season Will Now Run May to September
August 29, 2011, DERRY, NH – On Thursday, September 8, 2011, 6:30-8:30pm, the Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series features Poet David Berman. Also appearing is award-winning Hyla Brook Poet Stephen Scaer. This will be the last reading of the 2011 Season as the Frost Farm prepares to close for the fall and winter. Held at the Robert Frost Farm at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28), the Reading Series is free and open to the public.
Mr. Berman, a noted attorney, is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he studied with Elliott Coleman. He earned graduate degrees at Johns Hopkins University and Boston University, where he studied with Robert Lowell. While attending Harvard Law School he studied with Archibald MacLeish and frequently published work in the Harvard Advocate. Berman’s work has also appeared in numerous magazines including Counter Measures, The Formalist, Harvard Magazine, Piedmont Literary Review, The Epigrammatist, Sparrow, Iambs & Trochees and Orbis. He has also published three chapbooks: Future Imperfect (State Street Press, 1982), Slippage (Robert L. Barth, 1996), and David Berman: Greatest Hits 1965-2002 (Pudding House, 2002). His awards and honors include several from the World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets, which sponsors a yearly national competition. In 1999, Mr. Berman adjudicated the Newburyport Art Association Annual Poetry Contest.
Mr. Scaer of Nashua is a special education teacher with poems published or forthcoming in Highlights for Children, Cricket, National Review, First Things, and Light. He has won several prizes, including the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and is the Director of the New England Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Contest.
An Open Mic will follow the readings and all audience members are invited to share their work.
The group’s monthly writing workshop will continue to meet on the third Saturday of the month at 10am. The next workshop takes place on Saturday, September 17, at the Frost Farm. After that, workshops will be at the Coffee Factory in Derry until the Frost Farm reopens in May 2012.
The five-month 2012 Hyla Brook Reading Series will run from May through September at the Frost Farm.
For questions, please contact Robert Crawford at bobik9@aol.com or visit http://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets
The Frost Farm is located 1 ¾ miles south of the Derry Circle on NH 28. For further information call (603) 432-3091. www.robertfrostfarm.org