Here are a couple examples:   

We began placing brochures in childrens' books donated by Saint Martins.  That way we acquainted more parents with the facilities of the Lawrence Library.

We handed out poems from Robert Frost and poets that were performed at the Spring series at Cafe Azteca.

Henry Jones From Wales

Barbara Adams of Newburgh, NY is an Emerita Professor from Pace University

Her publications include 2 books of poetry: Hapax Legomena and The Ordinary Living; a book of poetic criticism, The Enemy Self: Poetry & Criticism of Laura Riding; poems in The Nation, Confrontation, Texas Review, Words & Images, etc.; and a one-act play, God's Lioness and the Crow: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, which has been produced twice by readers' theatres.

Her short story, "Portrait of the Artists' Daughter," won first prize in the 1999 Negative Capability fiction contest. Several poems have won Honorable Mentions, and her creative nonfiction, poems and stories have also appeared in Psychoanalytic Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Other Voices, The Next Parish Over (anthology), Life Stories: A Teaching Casebook (anthology), Riverwind, etc.  

Poem copyright ©2007 by Barbara Adams

2007 judge names ten Runners up

This year’s judge selected ten runners up, in this order, whose poems will be published in Frost Notes 2007 (frostfoundation.org/frostnotes2007) this winter.

1. "Night on the balcony of the chalet"

-- Howard W. Robertson is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Eugene, Oregon.  He has published three books of poems: The Bricolage of Kotegaeshi (The Backwaters Press, 2007); Ode to certain interstates and Other Poems (Clear Cut Press, 2004); and to the fierce guard in the Assyrian Saloon (Ahsahta Press, 1987).  He was named 2007 Jack Straw Writer by Jack Straw Productions in Seattle.  He was the winner of the 2006 Elizabeth R. Curry Prize for Poetry (SLAB of Slippery Rock University, PA) and the 2003 Robinson Jeffers Prize for Poetry (Tor House of Carmel, CA).  His poems have been published in many literary journals, including most recently in The Great American Poetry Show, Snow Monkey, SLAB, Square Lake, Hipfish, Nest, Literal Latte, Nimrod, Fireweed, and Ergo.  His poetry has been anthologized in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology (Jack Straw Productions, 2007); The Clear Cut Future (Clear Cut Press, 2003); The Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology (Universities West Press, 2002); and Ahsahta Anthology: Poetry of the American West (Ahsahta Press, 1996).  He has been among the winners of various other poetry awards, including the Bumbershoot Award, the Emily Dickinson Award, the Intown Award, the Literal Latte Award, the Pablo Neruda Award, and the Pacifica Award. 

2. "Fragments (Psalm 3)" 

- Seneca Turner of Bronx, NY has been a faculty member and administrator at many colleges over a thirty-year period. He has travelled, worked and written in East Africa, Brazil, and throughout the Caribbean. Mr. Turner's poems have appeared in Black Library Forum, African Voices, Crum Voices Review, The New york Amsterdam News, Poet On Line. He is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild.  He is the author of "Can I Get A Witness?" ((Kitabu Press, 1994) and the most recent "Staying the Course" (Whirlwind Press, 2005) He was selected as a Cave Canen Fellow at Poets House in New York and is currently an Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.

3. "Lost" 

- Jeannine Dobbs of Merrimack, NH

We are awaiting a biography of Ms. Dobbs, who read her poem the 11th Frost Festival.

4. "The pathos of the golden toad" 

-          Howard W. Robertson, Eugene OR  (See above for bio).

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5. "Burden of Moonlight" 

- Patricia Budd ,  Portland, ME.

We are awaiting a biography form Ms. Budd, who read her poem at the 11th Frost Festival.

6. "Old Bird" 

-Richard Newman,   St. Louis, MO 

7. "These Nails, They Point Upwards" 
 Kimberly Burwick was raised in New England and has lived in the Czech Republic and Western Wyoming. Her poems have appeared in The Indiana Review, The Literary Review, Fence, Conjunctions and other journals. In addition, her first book of poems Has No Kinsmen was recently published in 2006 by Red Hen Press. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut, and lives in Western Massachusetts  

8. "I Capricci, for Joseph Brodsky" 

We are awaiting a biography of Ms. Clark.

Jo Ann Clark, Sleepy Hollow, NY

9. "Waterville, Maine, near Great Pond"

Judith Pacht’s manuscript was a finalist in the TUPELO PRESS (2006-7) open submission competition and a semi-finalist in the UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (2007) competition.   Before winning this honorable mention,  Pacht won the the 2007 ROBINSON JEFFERS TOR HOUSE PRIZE FOR POETRY, (Waterville, Maine, near Great Pond), and the SMARTISH PACE Erskine J. Poetry Prize (User’s Guide).  Pacht was first place winner in the GEORGIA POETRY SOCIETY (2005) Edgar Bowers competition, (Undelivered Mothers Day), and received the MARGARET REID HIGH DISTINCTION AWARD (2006) for her poem On a Line from Salvador Espriu. Her work includes poems published in PLOUGHSHARES; RUNES, Arctos Press; CIDER PRESS REVIEW; THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW, Red Hen Press; SOLO 6; SITE OF THE CITY, Los Angeles postcard competitions; and GASTRONOMICA, The University of California Press.

10. "November: to Robert Frost"

- Anne Murphy,   Chelmsford, MA met her husband Neil at Boston College, where both pursued degrees in English Literature.  For the past twenty-five years, she has taught writing classes at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  Poetry has been a sporadic passtime over the years, but she has returned to it with more intensity in the past five years. A member of the Lowell Poetry Network, she has been published in the Notre Dame English Journal, Renovation Journal, and The Offering. She is the mother of two daughters and a grandmother.

Ms. Murphy read her poem at the 11th Frost Festival.