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Robert Frost in Amesbury, Mass. (1897-1898). Who Knew?

April 24, 2025 by PaulM Posted in Poetry, Robert Frost, Lawrence, Amesbury, MA, Merrimack Valley literature 4 Comments

Robert Frost in Amesbury, Mass. (1897-1898). Who Knew? Well, somebody knew about this but I didn’t even though I’ve been in Amesbury for eight years. Plus, I’ve studied authors of the region since reading Thoreau’s “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers” in the 1970s. How did I miss…

Robert Frost of Lawrence, Mass., Still Making News

February 26, 2025 by PaulM Posted in Poetry, Robert Frost, Merrimack Valley, Lawrence 1 Comment

The 100th anniversary issue of The New Yorker magazine (Feb. 10) includes a literary scoop, the first publication of a previously unknown poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963). The short poem, “Nothing New,” dated 1918 in Amherst, Mass., is written in the front of a copy of his second book, North…