The month of April is National Poetry Month. For so many people, Robert Frost is the poet of New England. Frost’s poetry returns again and again to the mountains of our home: apple orchards, bending birches, old pastures, spring pools, stone walls, roads not taken, and woods dark and deep. Frost has a keen eye and ear, a reverence for nature, and a craftsman’s approach to line, stanza, and poem.
Every spring, the Crossroads Academy seventh grade and the Dartmouth College Department of English & Creative Writing partner to host “You Come Too,” a celebration of Frost’s life and work. During the event, community members share favorite poems, tell Frost-inspired stories, and display artifacts: personal photographs, signed books, and more.
This year, the celebration will be held in Dartmouth College’s Sanborn Library on Wednesday, April 15, from 4:00-5:15 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Thanks to the generosity of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity of Dartmouth College, copies of Frost’s Collected Poems will be presented to the first 36 students to arrive at Sanborn.
