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Robert
Frost in the News
The following are links to various media in which Frost and his work are
mentioned or discussed. Enjoy!
http://beatcrave.com/2009-12-08/david-bowie-responds-to-his-first-fan-letter/
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/lagrange/homepage/x1682954418/Commutes-will-only-get-worse
(on a statue of Robert Frost in Hinsdale, Ilinois)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574561734246276554.html
(on how Robert Frost influenced Irving Berlin' s "White Christmas")
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/seasons-greetings-from-robert-frost/
(on Robert Frost Christmas card poems)
This last link is one of several installments on YouTube
of five minute tutorial sessions. Learn at your own risk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9Zpa9-S9Y
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2009-2010 Robert Frost Society President
Marit
MacArthur, Assistant Professor of English
California State University, Bakersfield
Find out more about MacArthur's
recent book, The American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery, here.
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The 2008 issue (Issue #18) of The Robert Frost Review is available.
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Remember, you may contact us with general inquiries at robertfrostreview@gmail.com. *
Modern Language Association
December 27-30, 2009
Philadelphia, PA
This year's MLA Convention will include the following Robert Frost
panel, chaired by Tyler Hoffman of the University of Rutgers, Camden:
1. "The Poetics of Lexicon in 1912:
Frost, the Georgian Poets, and the Vernacular," Ben Glaser, Cornell University
2. "The Good Neighbor: Robert
Frost and the Ethics of Community," Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
3. "American Modernism
as a Study of Objects: Robert Frost and the Self-Projected Thing," Kathleen DíAngelo, University of Maryland,
College Park
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American Literature Association
May 21-24, 2009
Boston, MA
The 20th annual ALA Convention included the following panels organized by
the Robert Frost Society:
Panel I: Origins and Entropy in the Poetry of Robert Frost
Organized by the Robert
Frost Society
Chair: Robert Bernard Hass, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
1. “Enhancing the
Bibliosphere: The Libraries of Early America Project,” Jeremy B. Dibbell, Massachusetts Historical Society
2.
“Puritanism and the Power of Sympathy,” Abram Van Engen, Northwestern University
3. “Globalizing the
Republic of Letters: Language, Provincialism and American Print Culture at the End of the Eighteenth Century,” Matthew
Pethers, University of Nottingham
4. “A Convergence of Genres: The Case of Elizabeth Fales and Jason Fairbanks,”
Eric Aldrich, Arizona State University
Panel II: Crossroads of Regional Landscapes: The Intersections of Robert Frost
and Willa Cather (St George C)
Organized by the Robert Frost Society
Chair: Robert Bernard Hass, Edinboro University
of Pennsylvania
1. “Willa Cather and Robert Frost: Migrations and Identities in American Life,”
Jennifer Luongo, Independent Scholar
2. “The Influence of Robert Frost’s Mountain Interval on Willa Cather’s
My Antonia,” Mary Chinery, Georgian Court University
3. “Old Ways to be New: Modernity in Frost and Cather,”
Donald G. Sheehy, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
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