Save the Date -
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Hancock Town Hall
7pm
Free Event
Sponsored by the Friends of the Hancock Free Public Library

The Road Not Taken: The Friendship Between Robert Frost and Edward Thomas

Presented by: Sue Ellen Thompson

When Robert Frost and his family moved to England in 1912, he hoped to find more time for writing. He fell in with a group of English writers that included Edward Thomas, who was known primarily for his nonfiction and biographies.

Thompson's lecture will trace the course of this literary friendship and the poems that came out of it, which will be read and discussed.

Bio: Sue Ellen Thompson is a graduate of Middlebury College and The Bread Loaf School of English who has owned a house in Hancock since 1986. She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently THEY (2014) and the editor of a major anthology of contemporary American poetry. She has taught at Middlebury, Wesleyan, Binghamton University, Central CT State University, and the University of Delaware. She now lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake and is the winner of the 2010 Maryland Author Award. Additionally, she spent a summer as resident poet at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH and several of her poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac."