Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, bouncing among stray gigs (actor’s manager, repairer of lights at a wool mill) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, had written a poem called ...

After William’s death in 1885, Isabelle moved, with 11-year-old Robert and his younger sister Jeanie, to Massachusetts.At Lawrence High School, Frost encountered Cicero, Virgil, and, perhaps ...

Guest host Andrea Seabrook speaks with Robert Stilling and Ted Genoways about a previously unkown poem by Robert Frost. Stilling is the graduate student who discovered the poem, inscribed in a ...

Robert Frost and the pedagogical path less traveled On his 150th birthday, remembering the poet who compared free verse to ‘playing tennis with the net down.’ Turns out, he taught that way, too.