The Frost Place is a nonprofit educational center for poetry and the arts based at Robert Frost’s old homestead, which is owned by the town of Franconia, New Hampshire.



The Frost Place was founded in 1976 when a group of neighbors led by David Schaffer and Van Macklin persuaded the Franconia town meeting to approve the purchase of the farmhouse where Robert Frost and his family lived full-time from 1915 to 1920 and spent nineteen summers. A board of trustees was given responsibility for management of the house and its associated programs, and from 1977 through 2005 teacher and scholar Donald Sheehan served as executive director. In 2006 the trustees appointed poet and teacher Jim Schley to be Sheehan’s successor. Since the fall of 2008, the trustees have managed The Frost Place.



Since 1977, The Frost Place has awarded a fellowship each summer to an emerging American poet, including a cash stipend and the opportunity to live and write in the house for several months. In addition, The Frost Place has sponsored an annual Festival and Conference on Poetry for writers seeking classes and workshops with a faculty of illustrious poets, a program that has in recent years expanded to include a young poets conference for high school students, a teachers’ conference, and an advanced seminar. For 2009 the Festival and Conference on Poetry, and The Young Poet's Conference have been suspended.