[Catherine McDonald]

Poets can submit poems electronically and pay by credit card, debit card, or PayPal from all over the world. A first! Many thanks to Spherians Mike Juster and Janice Soderling for help with editing and payment testing. Feel free to share with formalist poetry friends.

The official release:

Open For Entries:
The 2016 Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry

DERRY, NH, December 16, 2015 -- The Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, and the Hyla Brook Poets invite submissions for the 6th Annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry. Deadline is April 1, 2016.

The winner receives $1,000, publication in Evansville Review and an invitation, with honorarium, to read in June 2016 as part of The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm. The reading opens the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, which is devoted to metrical poetry. The winner also receives a scholarship to attend the conference.

This year’s judge is David J. Rothman, Director of Western State Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing. He also directs the program’s annual conference, Writing the Rockies, and is editor of Western’s national poetry and criticism journal, THINK. His most recent volumes of poetry, both of which appeared in 2013, are The Book of Catapults (White Violet Press) and Part of the Darkness (Entasis Press). Rothman will read every submitted poem.

Last year’s winner, judged by Joshua Mehigan, was Kevin Durkin of Santa Monica, Calif., for his poem, "Meteor Crater."

Submission guidelines and online entry are available at: http://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/prize/

To learn more about the Frost Farm Prize or for more Frost Farm Poetry information, please visit FrostFarmPoetry.org or Facebook at Facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets or Twitter at twitter.com/HylaBrookPoets.


About the Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Poets

The Frost Farm was home to the poet and his family from 1900-1911. The Hyla Brook Poets, a 501(c)(3), started in 2008 as a monthly poetry workshop. In March 2009, the Hyla Brook Reading Series launched with readings by emerging poets as well as luminaries such as Maxine Kumin, David Ferry, Linda Pastan, and Sharon Olds. The Frost Farm Prize was introduced in 2010, followed by the inaugural Frost Farm Poetry Conference in 2015.

[Catherine McDonald]

The scholarship aspect of the 6th Annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry may have an added appeal for some in light of the announcement of the 2016 master class instructor and conference keynote speaker noted here.

So, to recap the award particulars:

• $1,000 cash prize
• Publication in the Evansville Review
• Invitation to read as a featured guest at our special June 2016 Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, which serves to open our annual Frost Farm Poetry Conference
• Travel stipend (honorarium)
• Scholarship to attend the above mentioned conference (covers full registration fee: including weekend workshop and all meals), Friday, June 17 - Sunday, June 19, 2016

Be our guest! Submission details here.

[Catherine Chandler]

This is fantastic news, Catherine! I think I must be Tim Steele's biggest fan here in Canada. I can't say enough about his wonderful poetry, his two books on metrical poetry (my copies of which are quite dog-eared ), and how nice he is as a person.

I've just mailed my entries to the Frost Farm Prize this morning.

[Catherine McDonald]

Thanks, Catherine, we are quite thrilled too that Tim Steele will be teaching. I have Tim's All The Fun's in How You Say a Thing, and treasure it too.

So great that you are entering. What a delight it would be for us to host another Eratosphere winner! By my calculations, the winner could use the prize money toward WCUPC or PBtS and still attend The Frost Farm Poetry Conference as the featured June Hyla Brook Reading Series reader on scholarship. Lots of prize for a single poem. And, anyone can enter!

[Catherine McDonald]

*Bump*...did you know that word (noun) first appeared in none other than that sonneteer's Shakespeare's work? There's still time to summon your muses to help you win The Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry. Sphereans have some of the hardest working in the business!

And, picking up on a suggestion from another thread, for anyone looking for what kind of poetry the contest judge writes, here are a couple of examples http://www.coloradopoetscenter.org/p.../breaking.html and I can't seem to link it, but if you put the words "Formalist David Rothman" in a Google search, you should find four of his metrical poems.

You possibly will find other samples of David's poetry by googling information in the bio he supplied the contest. Click the blue hyperlink on his name in the second paragraph http://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/prize/

Best, to all who enter!

[john savoie]

Thanks, Catherine.

Under the influence of another thread, I wonder:
who will be screening? and to what degree?

[Richard Meyer]

john:

The information at the beginning of this thread answers your question:

This year’s judge is David J. Rothman, Director of Western State Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing … Rothman will read every submitted poem.

This has always been the practice of the Frost Farm contest. And the contest receives one helluva lot of submissions.

Richard

[Catherine McDonald]

Tick, tick, tick...

Deadline is April 1, 2016.

http://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/prize/

[Alan Rain]

Thank you for this info.