12th Annual Robert Frost Foundation Annual Poetry Award To view a copy of the online Frost Enewsletter  with the 11th Annual Robert Frost Award winning poem by Barbara Adams click here. ( includes a slide show of the 2007 winners.) Guidelines for the 2008 Robert Frost Award (note changes from 2007 highlighted) Poems should be postmarked (or emailed) between March 1, 2008 and September 15, 2008 to be considered for the 2008 award. Please send two copies of your poem written in the "spirit of Robert Frost" (whatever you feel that may be).  One copy should have your name, address, email and phone #. The other copy should not have this information on it.                                                                 Poets may submit up to three poems on plain paper of not more than three pages for consideration.  Prior published work may be submitted; for all work submitted to the Robert Frost Foundation, you retain copyright and the Robert Frost Foundation will request your  permission if we choose to publish your work on our web site or in other foundation publications. Original manuscripts should have your name, address, email and phone #; please include a second copy of each page that will be sent to the judges and therefore should not have any information that identifies you as the author. Please note:  Email submissions are acceptable in the following formats: --a single MS. Word document attached that presents one page per poem. For example,  page 1 should have your name, address, email and phone #; page 2 should other should not have this information on it. --the text from any word processing document pasted into the body of the email.  Email submissions to should be sent to frostfoundation@comcast.net   Manuscripts will not be returned.   If you wish to receive information regarding the winning poet, enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope or include your email address. Deadline for submission is   Please enclose a $10.00 per poem entry reading fee made payable to The Robert Frost Foundation. In the case of electronic submissions, manuscripts submitted via email will be held until reading fees are received via regular mail. Officers and Directors of The Robert Frost Foundation as well as festival organizers are not eligible to enter the award. Mail entries to the new address (effective 2008):                                                                                                             Attention: Poetry Award The Robert Frost Foundation 51 Lawrence Street Lawrence, MA 01841 Lawrence Public Library -- 3rd Floor Please contact Mark Schorr   frostfoundation@comcast.net for additional information

 

Watch a video of the Howard Robertson's 2007 Honorable Mention poem "Night on the Balcony of the Chalet" and "The Pathos of the Golden Toad" from YouTube:

Click here for "Pathos"+ text

Click here to view the text of the poem while listening to the author's reading via YouTube.

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Reserve your copy of the Frost Foundation's first hardcover  book:
One On A Side: 
An Evening With 
Seamus Heaney 
& Robert Frost
(Seamus Heaney's Lawrence Lecture and Reading), 56 pages hardcover, includes a dozen Frost and Heaney poems and rare photographs.  To order, please remit a check for $19.95 plus 5.00 priority shipping to 

Heaney Book
Frost Foundation 
Lawrence Library
51 Lawrence St., 
Lawrence, MA 01841.  

For charge card orders,  please order this title from Lulu.com.