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2015 Poetry Seminar Fellow: Nathan McClain Facebook DONATE YouTube Email Meet Poetry Seminar Fellow: Nathan McClain "Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi" by Nathan McClain Special Reading: June 13th, Inspired Writing by Hobblebush Books' Authors Deadlines Approach: Apply Today to The Frost Place Poetry Programs Meet the Poetry Seminar Fellow Nathan McClain Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2017). His poems have recently appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Connotation
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2015 Poetry Seminar Fellow Nathan McClain
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Meet Poetry Seminar Fellow Nathan McClainLove Elegy in the Chinese Garden with Koi by NathanMcClainSpecial Reading June 13th Inspired Writing by HobblebushBooks AuthorsDeadlines Approach Apply Today to The Frost Place PoetryPrograms
Meet the Poetry Seminar FellowNathan McClain
Nathan McClain is the author ofScale (forthcoming from Four WayBooks in 2017) His poems haverecently appeared in SouthernHumanities Review Connotation
Press Southern Indiana ReviewUnion Station Magazine and Inch Arecipient of scholarships from The FrostPlace and the Bread Loaf WritersConference Nathan is a graduate fromthe MFA Program for Writers atWarren Wilson and a Cave Canemfellow
Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden with Koi
by Nathan McClain Near the entrance a patch of tall grassNear the tall grass longshystemmed plants each bending an earshyshaped coneto the ponds surface If you looked closely You could make out silvery Koiswishing toward the clouded ponds edge where a boy tugs at his mothers shirt for a quarterTo buy fish feed And watching that boy as he knelt down to let the Koi kiss his palmsI missed what it was to be so dumb as those Koi I like to think theyre purethat thats why even after the boys palms were empty after he had nothing else to give they still kissedhis hands Because who hasnt done thatmdash loved so intently even after everythinghas gone Loved something that has washed
its hands of you I like to think Im different nowthat Im enlightened somehow but who am I kidding I know Irsquom like those Koistill with their popping mouths that would kiss those hands again if given the chance So dumb mdashfirst appeared in The Collagist (August 2013)
Inspired Writing Mountains and Lupinesat The Frost Place
Sponsored by Hobblebush Books
Saturday June 13th 300 PM
Eric Pinder author of Life at the Top and Henry Walters author of FieldGuide A Tempo read from their books A special reading during the annuallocal Lupine Celebration Free and open to the public
Sponsored by Hobblebush Books a NH publisher
Eric Pinder first learned to loveweather and mountains in hishometown of Cobleskill in upstate NewYork where as a child he watched thestars and lunar eclipses with a toytelescope In the spring of 1995 hestarted work at the Mount WashingtonObservatory Pinder left the Observatoryin 2002 to pursue his writing morefully His first childrens book Cat in
the Clouds based on the adventures ofthe Observatoryrsquos cat Nin waspublished in 2009 from History PressPinder continues to live in Berlin NewHampshire and teaches Nature Writingand Writing for Children at ChesterCollege of New England His previousbooks are Life at the Top (Down EastBooks 1997) Tying Down the WindAdventures in the Worst Weather onEarth (TarcherPutnam 2000) Northto Katahdin (Milkwood Editions2005) and Among the Clouds WorkWit and Weather at the MountWashington Observatory (AlpineBooks 2008)
Henry Walters was born in Chicagoin 1984 and grew up in Indiana andsouthern Michigan He studied Latinand Greek at Harvard Collegebeekeeping in Sicily and falconry inIreland He has worked as a teacher anaturalist a practicing falconer and asteward of a wildlife sanctuary Hispoems translations and essays haveappeared in a range of publicationsfrom The Old Farmers Almanac to TheAmerican Guide to Hawk MigrationStudies and he is the recipientof Better Magazines 2013 prize forpoetry He currently lives in the beechand hemlock woods of Dublin NewHampshire where he coordinates theNew Hampshire Young Birders Cluband acts as Secretary for ExperimentalLiving at Dublin School
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Press Southern Indiana ReviewUnion Station Magazine and Inch Arecipient of scholarships from The FrostPlace and the Bread Loaf WritersConference Nathan is a graduate fromthe MFA Program for Writers atWarren Wilson and a Cave Canemfellow
Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden with Koi
by Nathan McClain Near the entrance a patch of tall grassNear the tall grass longshystemmed plants each bending an earshyshaped coneto the ponds surface If you looked closely You could make out silvery Koiswishing toward the clouded ponds edge where a boy tugs at his mothers shirt for a quarterTo buy fish feed And watching that boy as he knelt down to let the Koi kiss his palmsI missed what it was to be so dumb as those Koi I like to think theyre purethat thats why even after the boys palms were empty after he had nothing else to give they still kissedhis hands Because who hasnt done thatmdash loved so intently even after everythinghas gone Loved something that has washed
its hands of you I like to think Im different nowthat Im enlightened somehow but who am I kidding I know Irsquom like those Koistill with their popping mouths that would kiss those hands again if given the chance So dumb mdashfirst appeared in The Collagist (August 2013)
Inspired Writing Mountains and Lupinesat The Frost Place
Sponsored by Hobblebush Books
Saturday June 13th 300 PM
Eric Pinder author of Life at the Top and Henry Walters author of FieldGuide A Tempo read from their books A special reading during the annuallocal Lupine Celebration Free and open to the public
Sponsored by Hobblebush Books a NH publisher
Eric Pinder first learned to loveweather and mountains in hishometown of Cobleskill in upstate NewYork where as a child he watched thestars and lunar eclipses with a toytelescope In the spring of 1995 hestarted work at the Mount WashingtonObservatory Pinder left the Observatoryin 2002 to pursue his writing morefully His first childrens book Cat in
the Clouds based on the adventures ofthe Observatoryrsquos cat Nin waspublished in 2009 from History PressPinder continues to live in Berlin NewHampshire and teaches Nature Writingand Writing for Children at ChesterCollege of New England His previousbooks are Life at the Top (Down EastBooks 1997) Tying Down the WindAdventures in the Worst Weather onEarth (TarcherPutnam 2000) Northto Katahdin (Milkwood Editions2005) and Among the Clouds WorkWit and Weather at the MountWashington Observatory (AlpineBooks 2008)
Henry Walters was born in Chicagoin 1984 and grew up in Indiana andsouthern Michigan He studied Latinand Greek at Harvard Collegebeekeeping in Sicily and falconry inIreland He has worked as a teacher anaturalist a practicing falconer and asteward of a wildlife sanctuary Hispoems translations and essays haveappeared in a range of publicationsfrom The Old Farmers Almanac to TheAmerican Guide to Hawk MigrationStudies and he is the recipientof Better Magazines 2013 prize forpoetry He currently lives in the beechand hemlock woods of Dublin NewHampshire where he coordinates theNew Hampshire Young Birders Cluband acts as Secretary for ExperimentalLiving at Dublin School
The Frost Place Poetry ProgramsApply Now
Conference on Poetry and Teaching shy June 21 shy 25 2015
Conference on Poetry shy July 12 shy 18 2015Poetry Seminar shy August 2 shy 8 2015
Copyright copy 2015 The Frost Place All rights reserved
Mailing addressThe Frost PlacePO Box 74Franconia NH 03580
Phone 603shy823shy5510Email frostfrostplaceorg Web wwwfrostplaceorg unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
its hands of you I like to think Im different nowthat Im enlightened somehow but who am I kidding I know Irsquom like those Koistill with their popping mouths that would kiss those hands again if given the chance So dumb mdashfirst appeared in The Collagist (August 2013)
Inspired Writing Mountains and Lupinesat The Frost Place
Sponsored by Hobblebush Books
Saturday June 13th 300 PM
Eric Pinder author of Life at the Top and Henry Walters author of FieldGuide A Tempo read from their books A special reading during the annuallocal Lupine Celebration Free and open to the public
Sponsored by Hobblebush Books a NH publisher
Eric Pinder first learned to loveweather and mountains in hishometown of Cobleskill in upstate NewYork where as a child he watched thestars and lunar eclipses with a toytelescope In the spring of 1995 hestarted work at the Mount WashingtonObservatory Pinder left the Observatoryin 2002 to pursue his writing morefully His first childrens book Cat in
the Clouds based on the adventures ofthe Observatoryrsquos cat Nin waspublished in 2009 from History PressPinder continues to live in Berlin NewHampshire and teaches Nature Writingand Writing for Children at ChesterCollege of New England His previousbooks are Life at the Top (Down EastBooks 1997) Tying Down the WindAdventures in the Worst Weather onEarth (TarcherPutnam 2000) Northto Katahdin (Milkwood Editions2005) and Among the Clouds WorkWit and Weather at the MountWashington Observatory (AlpineBooks 2008)
Henry Walters was born in Chicagoin 1984 and grew up in Indiana andsouthern Michigan He studied Latinand Greek at Harvard Collegebeekeeping in Sicily and falconry inIreland He has worked as a teacher anaturalist a practicing falconer and asteward of a wildlife sanctuary Hispoems translations and essays haveappeared in a range of publicationsfrom The Old Farmers Almanac to TheAmerican Guide to Hawk MigrationStudies and he is the recipientof Better Magazines 2013 prize forpoetry He currently lives in the beechand hemlock woods of Dublin NewHampshire where he coordinates theNew Hampshire Young Birders Cluband acts as Secretary for ExperimentalLiving at Dublin School
The Frost Place Poetry ProgramsApply Now
Conference on Poetry and Teaching shy June 21 shy 25 2015
Conference on Poetry shy July 12 shy 18 2015Poetry Seminar shy August 2 shy 8 2015
Copyright copy 2015 The Frost Place All rights reserved
Mailing addressThe Frost PlacePO Box 74Franconia NH 03580
Phone 603shy823shy5510Email frostfrostplaceorg Web wwwfrostplaceorg unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
the Clouds based on the adventures ofthe Observatoryrsquos cat Nin waspublished in 2009 from History PressPinder continues to live in Berlin NewHampshire and teaches Nature Writingand Writing for Children at ChesterCollege of New England His previousbooks are Life at the Top (Down EastBooks 1997) Tying Down the WindAdventures in the Worst Weather onEarth (TarcherPutnam 2000) Northto Katahdin (Milkwood Editions2005) and Among the Clouds WorkWit and Weather at the MountWashington Observatory (AlpineBooks 2008)
Henry Walters was born in Chicagoin 1984 and grew up in Indiana andsouthern Michigan He studied Latinand Greek at Harvard Collegebeekeeping in Sicily and falconry inIreland He has worked as a teacher anaturalist a practicing falconer and asteward of a wildlife sanctuary Hispoems translations and essays haveappeared in a range of publicationsfrom The Old Farmers Almanac to TheAmerican Guide to Hawk MigrationStudies and he is the recipientof Better Magazines 2013 prize forpoetry He currently lives in the beechand hemlock woods of Dublin NewHampshire where he coordinates theNew Hampshire Young Birders Cluband acts as Secretary for ExperimentalLiving at Dublin School
The Frost Place Poetry ProgramsApply Now
Conference on Poetry and Teaching shy June 21 shy 25 2015
Conference on Poetry shy July 12 shy 18 2015Poetry Seminar shy August 2 shy 8 2015
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Mailing addressThe Frost PlacePO Box 74Franconia NH 03580
Phone 603shy823shy5510Email frostfrostplaceorg Web wwwfrostplaceorg unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
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Conference on Poetry and Teaching shy June 21 shy 25 2015
Conference on Poetry shy July 12 shy 18 2015Poetry Seminar shy August 2 shy 8 2015
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Mailing addressThe Frost PlacePO Box 74Franconia NH 03580
Phone 603shy823shy5510Email frostfrostplaceorg Web wwwfrostplaceorg unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
