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 [2], 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 [3] for next year's Resident Poet Award [4]. 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 [5] 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.