2021 Dartmouth Poet in Residence

The Dartmouth Poet in Residence program at The Frost Place is a six-to-eight-week residency in poet Robert Frost’s former farmhouse, which sits on a quiet north-country lane with a spectacular view of the White Mountains, and serves as a museum and conference center. The program has existed since 1977, and has been sponsored by Dartmouth College since 2012.

The residency begins July 1 and ends August 15, and includes an award of $1,000 from The Frost Place and an award of $1,000 from Dartmouth College.

The recipient of the Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place will have an opportunity to give a series of public readings across the region, including at Dartmouth College and The Frost Place. There are no other specific obligations. We hope that the residency offers space and time for significant poetic work.

Accommodations are spartan but comfortable. The Frost Place Museum is open to the public during afternoon hours, but the resident poet has sole use of non-public rooms of the house.

Previous recipients of this residency include Mark Cox, Christopher Gilbert, Rigoberto González, Mark Halliday, Robert Hass, Major Jackson, Laura Kasischke, Cleopatra Mathis, William Matthews, Katha Pollitt, Mary Ruefle, and Luci Tapahonso.

The aim of this program is to select a poet who is at an artistic and personal crossroads, comparable to that faced by Robert Frost when he moved to Franconia in 1915, when he was not yet known to a broad public.

To be eligible, applicants must have published at least one full-length collection of poetry at the time of submission.

2021 Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press

The Frost Place, a nonprofit center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, in partnership with Bull City Press, invites submissions to The Ninth Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press.
The winner’s chapbook will be published by Bull City Press in Summer 2021. The winner will receive 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 300), and a $250 prize. The winner will also receive a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, August 2021, including room and board (valued at approximately $1,550, Pending COVID-19), and will give a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar.
Additionally, the chapbook fellow will have the option to spend one week living and writing in The Frost Place House-Museum in September 2021 (peak fall foliage season in the White Mountains) at a time agreed upon by the fellow and the Frost Place.
The 8th Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition’s Final Judge is Tiana Clark.
Submission Period: October 1, 2020 – January 5, 2021.
Submissions Fee: $28.00.
Submissions are only accepted online through the online submission manager.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the NH State Council on the Arts.