Hyla Brook Poets

05/25/2026

More exciting news! The Frost Farm Poetry Conference has found a fantastic new home at the New Hampshire Audubon Massebesic Center in Auburn, New Hampshire. Workshops will still be held outside in a beautiful field with access to miles of trails, woodlands, a wildlife sanctuary, and Lake Massebesic. In addition the Audubon Center has many advantages including better bathrooms, an air conditioned conference room, and NO motorcycle noise! We will strive to make the conference the same wonderful poetry experience that it has been for the last 11 years. Hurry and sign up--there are still a few spots left! https://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/conference-overview

05/20/2026

The Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, N.H., are pleased to announce that the winner of the 17th Annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry is Carla Galdo of Lovettsville, Virginia, for her poem “The Absences Are Different.” The contest was judged by Ryan Wilson, who also chose 1 Finalist and 12 Honorable Mentions:

Finalist:
"Day Drinking After Visiting My Mother" by Alice Allan of Melbourne Australia

Honorable Mentions:
“Ghost Leaves” by Blake Campbell of Lehigton, Pennsylvania
“The Burial” by Maya Venters of Glen Williams, Ontario, Canada
“Χορός” by Steven Searcy of Atlanta, Georgia
“Laetare” by Cara Valle of Dunn Loring, Virginia
“Maintenance” by Cara Valle of Dunn Loring, Virginia
“Aubade” by Benjamin Myers of Chandler, Oklahoma
“Po Polsku” by Carla Galdo of Lovettsville, Virginia
“Remembering the Fireflies” by Steven Monte of New York, New York
“Adgnosco Veteris Vestigia Flammae” by James Wilson of Grand Rapids, Michigan
“The Good Life” by Olivia Marstall of Sioux Center, Iowa
“Prayer against Despair” by Benjamin Rose of Arlington, Virginia
“As it is” by Steven Monte of New York, New York

Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry

05/15/2026

What a great night! Thank you to Anna Lena Phillips Bell and Irene Baker for kicking off the Hyla Brook Reading Series last night, Melissa Juchniewicz for organizing everything, Robert Crawford for starting this wonderful series, and a special shoutout to Hyla Brook Estate, who graciously donated this beautiful spot for our series. Frost's presence still inspires us! https://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/reading-series

05/12/2026

JOIN US THIS THURSDAY! Kicking off the reading series with featured reader Anna Lena Phillips Bell May 14, 6pm, at our new location at HYLA BROOK ESTATE (14 Rockingham Road, Derry), with Hyla Brook poet Irene Baker. Refreshments and a cash bar. Bring a poem for the open mike! https://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/reading-series

05/08/2026

Join the Hyla Brook Reading Series launch party on May 14 at 6pm with Anna Lena Phillips Bell and Hyla reader Irene Baker at our new location at Hyla Brook Estate, 140 Rockingham Road, Derry, right next to the Frost Farm. Refreshments and cash bar! https://frostfarmpoetry.org/reading-series

05/05/2026

EXCITING NEWS! The Hyla Brook Reading Series has a new home at the Hyla Brook Estate, and we’re throwing a party to celebrate! Join us May 14 at 6:30 as we welcome our first reader, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, with refreshments and a cash bar.
https://frostfarmpoetry.org/reading-series

04/23/2026

Use poetry to tell a story, be someone else, do something you’ve never done before. Join Midge Goldberg at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, Aug. 14-16

Dramatic monologues and narrative poems give you a chance, like in fiction, to tell a story, be someone else, do something you’ve never done before.

04/20/2026

Join Elijah Perseus Blumov at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, Aug. 14-16, to investigate how poets have fulfilled the role of myth-maker in past ages and how to bring our own fantastical inner visions, our own psychocosmos, into the poetry of the 21st century.

“Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhymeof things not found within recorded time….illuminating Now and dark Hath-beenwith light of suns as yet by no man seen.”

04/17/2026

"Have you written a rhymed haiku poem lately?" Join Leslie Monsour at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference to study and try your hand at the form Richard Wilbur originated with “Thyme Flowering among Rocks.” Aug. 14-16, Derry, N.H.

Have you written a rhymed haiku poem lately? I don’t mean a single rhymed haiku, but a stanzaic poem composed in the form Richard Wilbur originated with “Thyme Flowering among Rocks,” published in his 1969 collection Walking to Sleep.

04/15/2026

Dan Brown says "it's easier than you think." Meter, that is. Join him at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference Aug. 14-16 to learn his tips and tricks about writing in meter.

If the attendees are nice to me, I'll share the single most important thing a poet can do to improve their command of meter.