Care to Kick Back in Frost's Old Farmhouse?

Looking for a place to write during the summer? Sure, you could hole up in your home office or sweet-talk the barista at your local coffee bar and claim the corner table as your own. But if you want a truly unique writing spot, consider Frost Place, the nonprofit educational center for poetry and the arts based at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. July 3 is the deadline for next year's Resident Poet Award. The prize of two thousand dollars and a two-month residency at Frost's old farmhouse is given annually to a poet who has published at least one poetry collection. 

This year's winner is Poets & Writers Magazine contributing editor Rigoberto González, who will be arriving in Franconia in early July and spend two months in the house where Frost and his family lived full-time from 1915 to 1920 and spent nineteen summers. The Frost Place has been awarding the residency for the past tweny-two years. Previous winners include Katha Pollitt, Robert Hass, William Matthews, Mary Jo Salter, Denis Johnson, Sherod Santos, Pattiann Rogers, Stanley Plumly, Jeffrey Skinner, B. H. Fairchild, Major Jackson, and Laura Kasischke.