The 16th Annual Key West Robert Frost Poetry festival will be held in Key West, Florida on Sunday April 11th, 2010 on the grounds of the Heritage House Museum.
The Celebration of Poetry will feature the announcement and reading of the winners of the International Poetry Contest and the Monroe County Poetry in Schools Contest.
In Cooperation with the Robert Frost Poetry Festival and the Key West Heritage House Museum, The Key West Authors' Book Fair will take place on Friday and Saturday, April 9-10, preceding the Robert Frost Poetry Awards on Sunday. Hosted by SeaStory Press Publishing, the eventt will be from 10 AM to 4 PM in the Heritage House Garden. FREE to attend. All Keys writers are invited to exhibit and read from their work. Registration $20. Call Sheri Lohr at SeaStory Press for registration or information: 305.296.5762 or sheri@seastorypress.com. Visit SeaStoryPress.com for details.
Look for the return of the five day festival in 2011.
Poet Laureate Robert Frost was a frequent visitor to 410 Caroline Street and wintered from 1945 to 1960 in the 1834 garden cottage now known as the Robert Frost Cottage.
The Key West Robert Frost Poetry Festival, started in 1994 by Jeanne Porter, became an annual five-day celebration of poetry readings, workshops, award ceremonies, and related events. The 2010 event will regretably not include workshops and social events, but we hope to return to the extended festival in 2011
The Festival coincides with National Poetry Month (April) and is an ongoing endeavor of the Heritage House Museum to celebrate Key West as a literary destination. Participants in the Festival have included Robert Frost’s granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, Richard Wilbur – a two time Pulitzer poetry prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the Untied States, Judy Collins, Laurence Ferlingetti, Richard Grusin, Dan Gerber, Dr. Michael Wyndham Thomas, Rosalind Brackenbury, Lee Gurga, Kirby Condon, Charles Trumbull, and Rebecca Seiferle.
In 1999, the Festival started its International Poetry Contest. The International Haiku Contest was added in 2005. Locally, Key West and Keys students compete in High, Middle, and Elementary School Contests.
