Robert Frost

Letter From a 'Nouveau Pauvre'

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Yoga, Robert Frost, Poverty, New Jersey, Greek Debt Crisis, Poetry, Middle Class, Austerity, Culture News
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

Until very recently, I was one of the unemployed-no-longer-looking-for-work, but I have changed that status. I apply for positions here and there: positions that might earn me a little gas money, but certainly not pay my health insurance.

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The Truth About The Democratic Party

Tim Suttle | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Robert Frost, Conservatives, Liberals, Progressives, Walter Rauschenbusch, Progressive Movement, Democratic Party, Democrats, Religion and Politics, Social Justice, Christian Social Justice, Politics News
Tim Suttle

As a Christian who grew up in the rural Midwest, I sometimes feel as though I'm a progressive trapped in the body of a conserver. Yet, the Democrats can make it really hard for a natural-born-conserver to be a part of the conversation.

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Finding Relief in Poetry's Icebox

John Lundberg | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: American Poetry, Robert Frost, Winter Poetry, Winter Poems, John Keats, Wallace Stevens, Poetry, Poetry Winter, Books News
John Lundberg

Here, for all of you fellow summer sufferers, are four very cold poems that might help you imagine some relief from the heat (and distract you from the fact that it isn't even August).

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EXPELLED From College

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Harrison Ford, Robert Frost, WIlliam Randolph Hearst, Salvador Dali, Expulsion, Slidepollajax, Ted Kennedy, Famous Students Expelled From College, Ted Turner, College News

With all of the furor surrounding entrepreneur-run college drop-out programs, HuffPost College decided to take a look at some famous college expulsio...

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Plymouth State University Acquires Robert Frost's Letters

AP | HOLLY RAMER | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Plymouth Normal School, Robert Frost, Plymouth State University, The Northeast, Robert Frost Letters, College News

CONCORD, N.H. — Writing from England as World War I got under way, Robert Frost was more worried about his personal finances than the threat of ...

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NPR: The Saga Continues

Bill Moyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, House of Representatives, Npr, Politics, Robert Frost, National Public Radio, Lloyd Doggett, Pro-Publica, Gop, Right Wing, US Army, Saxby Chambliss, Daniel Zwerdling, Republican Party, Public Broadcasting, Purple Heart, Media News
Bill Moyers

The modestly-paid but dedicated journalists at NPR are part of a forty year history that has given listeners a deeper and richer portrait of America and the world than any other broadcast news organization in the country.

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HuffPost Premiere: Wild Palms' "To The Lighthouse," Plus A Conversation With Susan Werner

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Bruce Cockburn, Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, Spider-Man, Steve Marcantonio, Wild Palms, Kcrw, Chris Matthews, Keb' Mo', Sarah Palin, Robert Frost, Trina Hamlin, Susan Werner, Nordstrom's, Theo Shier, Julie Taymor, Steve Forbert, David Wilcox, Stewart Smith, Jimmy Webb, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Here in the U.S., Wild Palms' Until Spring will debut on April 12th, but HuffPost has been given the premiere of the single "To The Lighthouse" presented here, airing for the first time in this territory.

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Late Bloomers In Art And Science

David Galenson | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Late Bloomer, Robert Frost, Matisse Favism, Ambroise Vollard, Art Meets Science, Janet Rowley, Lasker Award, Charles Darwin, National Medal of Science, Camille Pissarro, Pontoise, Aix en Provence, Experimental Innovator, Paul Cezanne, Home News
David Galenson

There is a common belief that creativity is the exclusive domain of the young, but this belief is simply wrong -- a product of the drama of early conceptual breakthroughs.

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Pondering the Snowy Woods in the Evening

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Snow, Robert Frost, Poetry, Poems, Comedy News
David Ropeik

With apologies to Robert Frost... Whose snow this is I think I know. It's ours, and how the piles grow. It does not see us standing here With shovel...

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"Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You..."

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Egypt, Mubarak, Robert Frost, Democracy, Jfk, Wall Street, Middle East, Jfk Speech, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Politics News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

Why can't I ask that? And if I am not to ask what can this country do for me, shouldn't I at least ask what exactly a country is for, by which I believe JFK meant government?

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Get Cozy: 6 Books To Beat The Winter Blues

csmonitor.com | Nora Dunne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Frost, Winter Books, The Long Winter, The Snowy Day, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Ground Hog Day, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, The Call of the Wild, The Mitten, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Books News

The groundhog may have seen his shadow yesterday, but for those of us enduring a blizzard a week spring still seems a distant prospect. So instead of ...

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The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grace Bumbry, John F. Kennedy, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Frost, Concerts for Young People by Young People, Denyce Graves, Leonard Bernstein, American Ballet Theatre, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Pablo Casals, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

No president, apart from John F. Kennedy, cited accomplishment in the arts as one of the highest aspirations of a nation. We must return to being a country that truly relishes the arts at their highest level of accomplishment.

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Celebrate American Literature on the 1st Annual Dead Poets Remembrance Day

Farryn Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Dead Poets Society, New Jersey, Jack Kerouac, Henry David Thoreau, Dead Poets, Massachusetts, New York, Maine, Halloween, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Slidepollajax, Literature, History, Travel News
Farryn Weiner

Poetry is a thing of the past, unless you include rap as poetic play-on-prose. But there's one man out there keeping the literature alive. Walter Skol...

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So Many Selves, So Little Time

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Talk of the Nation, Daniel Chaon, Dalai Lama, The Bible, Weeds, President Obama, Janet Maslin, Superman, Mad Men, Npr, Robert Frost, Michele Bachmann, George Steinbrenner, Sarah Palin, CBS News, Glenn Beck, Clark Kent, Shakespeare, New York Times, Healthy Living News
Michael Sigman

President Obama is a Kenyan or a Muslim -- or a Kenyan Muslim -- masquerading as an American Christian. The Dalai Lama is an undercover Nazi agent. Ma...

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Is College Worth It?

Olivia Pepper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Graduation, Robert Frost, College Tuition, Road-Less-Traveled-By, College, Graduation Speeches, College Degree, College News
Olivia Pepper

If Robert Frost felt that taking a certain road made a world of difference, wouldn't he have made it more clear which one he took? And is it better to take either one of these roads?

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Shining in the Dark: Finding Some Good in the Tragedy of the Oil Spill

Brenda Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean-Up, World Oceans Day, Graduation, Robert Frost, Sea Turtles, Florida, Dolphins, Bp, Sarasota, Seabirds, Obama, Gulf Oil Spill, Ptsd, Poetry, Green News
Brenda Peterson

We can support the tourist businesses that need our help.

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Sarah Palin Takes Up Fencing

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Frost, Neighbor, Going to Extremes, Joe McGinniss, Sarah-Palins-Year-of-Living-Dangerously, Facebook, Sarah Palin, Wasilla, Oxford House, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

It's been a few days since the Palins learned Joe McGinniss moved in next door. Love thy neighbor as thyself, then build a fence.

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Reconciliation vs. Filibuster -- Which Party Will Blink on Health Care?

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House?S Health Care Summit, Eric Massa, Robert Frost, Senator McConnell, President Obama, Bode Miller, Congressman Boehner, Filibuster, Mike Mcmahon, Health Care, President Clinton, Reconciliation, Politics News
Mark Green

It's come down to a contest not of skill but of will, especially for congressional Democrats. Can a GOP that misuses the filibuster scores of times scare Dems away from using reconciliation once?

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Poetry's Decline?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Frost, Children, Poetry, Linda Winston, Mom, Joyce Kilmer, Mary Ann Hoberman, Tree That Time Built, Poet Laureate, Felice Holman, Children's Poetry, Reciting Poetry, Books, Children's Books, Books News
Carol Hoenig

I'm sure I'd leafed through The Children's First Book of Poetry when I was a child, but it was more the memory of my mother reciting any number of poems that I cherished.

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Free To Be Fully Yourself In 2010

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Forgiving, Rabindranath Tagore, Discipline, Addiction, Surrender, Control, Nelson Mandela, Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, New Wealth, Freedom, Dwight D Eisenhower, Stephen Covey, New Year, Love, Ricochet, The Inner Life, Video, Healthy Living News
Anne Naylor

I believe we may have much more freedom than we generally realize. As creatures of habit, we tend to get locked in to beliefs, expectations and patterns of behaviour that limit our freedom.

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Super Poems: Other Comic Books Inspired by Verse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alexander Pope, The Hollow Men, W.H. Auden, The Imperfect Enjoyment, The Tiger, Betty and Veronica, Spiderman, Road-Not-Taken, William Blake, John Milton, The Fantastic Four, Lord Rochester, Iron Man, Cats, Robert Frost, Archie Comics, Human Torch, Captain American, T.S. Eliot, Calvin and Hobbes, The Waste Land, On His Blindness, Jonathan Swift, World War II, Dr. Arbuthnot, Batman, The Green Lantern, Achilles, Comics, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...

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A Poet's Christmas List

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Robert Frost, Holiday Seasonm Holidays, Poets, Knopf, Wallace Stevens, David Starkey, Poem, Poetry, Christmas, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

David Starkey of the Santa Barbara Independent listed ten poetry books he finds fit for giving this season. The new Wallace Stevens collection stands out for me.

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A Glimpse of Life's Journey

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Life's Journey, Robert Frost, Life, Susan Smalley, Healthy Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Mostly I travel alone but at times I carried a backpack full of seedlings needing nourishment or I would walk hand in hand with another experiencing the road ever so slightly different.

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A Villanelle to Oxford Skullduggery

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, Oxford, Elizabeth Bishop, Villanelle, The Poetic Life, Healthy Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

With apologies to every proper Villanelle ever written.

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AIG and the 'Road Not Taken'

Brian Shott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Melissa Etheridge, Robert Frost, AIG Bonus, M. Scott Peck, Aig, Barack Obama, Road Not Taken, Business News
Brian Shott

What does Robert Frost's famous poem have to do with the insurance giant, anyway?

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