[Catherine McDonald]

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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.