In the August issue of The Atlantic magazine, Carol Frost has a short poem about being alive titled “The Scrubbed and Simple Moon,” which is a big deal because the magazine typically publishes one poem per issue. Twelve poems a year. I’m sure the poetry editor gets thousands of compositions submitted for consideration each year. Kudos to her. A great get, as they say in tennis and pickleball.

Poet Carol Frost was born in Lowell in 1948. She is not often mentioned locally when the subject turns to writers connected to the city. So it is worth noting that she has roots in Lowell. She posts on Facebook occasionally, and today put up a link to a new interview she did with Sean Singer on his Substack newsletter. Here’s the link for readers who want to know more about her. 

And here’s her listing on the website of the Poetry Foundation based in Chicago. Click this link for more information. 

Carol Frost has had a distinguished career as a writer and teacher. I don’t know a lot about her life in Lowell or after, beyond what has been reported in short profiles online. I never heard that she has a connection to Robert Frost, who also has roots in the Merrimack River Valley—Lawrence. The Shenandoah Literary Magazine website has this information: ” . . . as a child she spent a year in her mother’s hometown of Vienna, so German was the first language she spoke. She studied at the Sorbonne and earned degrees from the State University of New York at Oneonta and Syracuse University.”

Maybe the authorities in the Lowell cultural sector would think about inviting her to read her poems in the city and talk about her literary life. When was the last time she was in the city? If she sees this post, maybe she can let people know.

She lives in Florida where she teaches at Rollins College. Here’s the link to her website.