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Please join the Robert Frost Society and Edward Thomas Fellowship for an International Roundtable concerning Robert Frost and Edward Thomas as Eco-poets. This free online event, featuring a distinguished panel of poets, scholars, and actors, will take place on Saturday, October 17 at 2 PM EDT. To access this event, please register for free below.
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Frost Statute at CU Boulder
THE ROBERT FROST SOCIETY PRESENTS in collaboration with the Benson Center at the University of Colorado Boulder ROBERT FROST: AMERICA'S POET AND AMERICAN POLITICS Thursday, November 12 5:30pm - 7pm Mountain Time Duane Physics G130 (DUAN G130) and YouTube Livestream Join us in person or via online livestream for an evening of discussion of America's most beloved poet and his place in American politics. Panelists: Robert Bernard Hass is Executive Director of the Robert Frost Society and Professor of English at PennWest University (Edinboro). He is the author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost’s Conflict with Science and co-editor of The Letters of Robert Frost, and his poetry and criticism have appeared in Poetry, the Sewanee Review, and other journals.
Robert W. Crawford is Director of Frost Farm Poetry in Derry, New Hampshire, which includes the Hyla Brook Reading Series, the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, and the Frost Farm Poetry Prize. He was named the first Poet Laureate of Derry, New Hampshire, and is the author of two poetry collections, including the Richard Wilbur Award–winning The Empty Chair.
Joseph Bottum is the Benson Center’s Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy. A former literary editor of the Weekly Standard and editor of First Things, he is the author of numerous books spanning philosophy, literature, and American religion, including An Anxious Age and, most recently, the poetry collection This Far Country. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Boston College.
Martin Bickman is Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 1974. A scholar of American literature and education, he is the author of Minding American Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning and Walden: Volatile Truths.
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Calls For Papers

Modern Language Association


American Literature Association

Robert Frost and Music (ALA symposium, Nashville, Jan 28-30, 2027)
The American Literature Association will hold a symposium on “Music and the American Literary Imagination” in Nashville, TN (January 28-30, 2027), and the Robert Frost Society seeks proposals for papers on Frost and music. Topics might include * new readings of Frost poems explicitly about music* Frost’s interest in musical notation, meter, intonation, voice, pitch, timbre* Frost's uses of musical forms* Frost’s poems about thrushes, ovenbirds, brooks, and other musicians of the nonhuman world * Frost’s references to (e.g. metaphors drawing on) music, sound, or voice* Frost and sound studies, recitation, performance, audio recordings* musical settings of or responses to Frost’s poems* Frost as an inspiration for music (e.g. classical, indie, Cantopop), allusions to Frost or Frost’s poems in song By October 1, 2026, please send a proposal of about 200-300 words and bio to Calista McRae, the RFS president for 2026-2027 (mcrae@njit.edu). You can also contact Calista if you have questions about this CFP.
More information about the Symposium is available here.

Lesley Lee Francis Award

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