Jim and Crystal Carleton accept a diploma for their son, Wyatt, by Superindent of Schools Randy Wormald at the Merrimack Valley High School Graduation on Saturday, June 7, 2025. Wyatt died in a car ...

The Holden Frost House sits just north of Cannon Mountain, with views of its trails and majestic Franconia Notch and Lafayette Mountain. It sits alone atop a hill, looking down on sweeping fields o… ...

This hour, we learn about the life and poetry of Robert Frost and discover how he's helped to inspire other poets. You can hear Adam Plunkett talk about his new book on Monday, February 24, at 7 p.m.

William H. Pritchard, in “Robert Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered,” from 1993, which has long been the gold-standard biography for many Frost enthusiasts, emphasized the poet’s ingenuity ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding claim: “We love the things we love for what they are.” Frost’s greatest poems capture the details of his world as it was ...

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry; by Adam Plunkett; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 512 pp., $37.00. Frost’s wife, Elinor, died in March 1938.

In his poem, Evening in a Sugar Orchard, Robert Frost recalls a night at Franconia spent boiling sap with the poet Raymond Holden. Occasionally, the two of them would take turns going outside of ...

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, bouncing among stray gigs (actor’s manager, repairer of lights at a wool mill) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, had written a poem called ...

The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry. By Adam Plunkett. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 500 pp. $37. Comments. A note to our readers.

Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.