Frost Foundation
 to Organize New Season 
of Local Poetry Bees

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Winning Poems at the Wetherbee 

 Robert Frost Foundation is holding another series of local poetry recitation bees at schools throughout Greater Lawrence area during the academic year of 2008-9

If you are interested in bringing a local poetry bee to your school  or participating in the Poetry Out Loud program,  please email frostfoundation@comcast.net and send a copy to the coordinator Ray Landry. drklandry@comcast.net

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Categories

  • Group Presentation
      A  group may consist of 2,3, or 4 contestants.

  • Dramatic Interpretation
     Students participating in this category must recite their chosen poem by heart.

  • However, they may use one index card.  Also, on the day of the local bee, students must provide 3 copies of their chosen poem for prompting and judging purposes.

  • Expressive Reading

  • Students participating in this category read their chosen poems from a book or sheet of paper.

Prizes

  • Gold, siver, and bronze medals will be awarded in the Dramatic Interpretation and 
    Expressive Reading categories

  • Special certificates will be awarded for first, second, and third places in the Group Presentation category.

 

   

Eligible Poems

Any Frost poem not on the following list must receive prior approval from the Bee coordinator:

Any poem from A Boy’s Will
Any poem from North of Boston
(available in DoverThrift edition)
or any of the following poems mostly from
Mountain Interval and New Hampshire

“The Road Not Taken”
“Christmas Trees”
“An Old Man’s Winter Night”
“An Exposed Nest”
“A Patch of Old Snow”
"The Telephone”
“Meeting and Passing”
“Hyla Brook”
“The Oven Bird”
“Bond and Free”
“Birches”
“A Time to Talk”
“The Cow in Apple Time”
“Range-Finding”
“The Hill Wife”
“The Bonfire”
“A Girl’s Garden”
“Locked Out”
“The Last Word of a Bluebird”
“ ’Out, out—' “
“The Sound of Trees”
“A Star in a Stone Boat”
“The Star Splitter”
 "Tree at My Window"
"The Silken Tent"
"The Bearer of Evil Tidings"

“The Grindstone”
“Wild Grapes” |
“The Witch of Coos”
“The Pauper Witch of Grafton”
“I Will Sing You One-O”
“Fragmentary Blue”
“In a Disused Graveyard”
“To E.T.”
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
“The Runaway”
“The Aim Was Song” "
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
“For Once, Then, Something”
“Blue-Butterfly Day”
“The Onset”
“To Earthward”
“Good-by and Keep Cold”
“Two Look at Two”
“Not to Keep”
“A Brook in the City”
  or the following poems found in  the Uncollected Poems section of the Library of America Frost:
  “Tenochtitlan”
“The Flight”
“Song of the Wave”
“A Dream of Julius Caesar”
“An Unhistoric Spot”
“The Birds Do Thus”
“Class Hymn”
“Twilight”
“Mill City”
“When the Speed Comes”