The Sound of Sense:
A Conversation with Robert Frost

Helltown Players Trustee John Dennis Anderson will present the poet Robert Frost reading and talking about his poetry in an interactive performance that will include answering the audience’s questions as Frost.

“The Sound of Sense: A Conversation with Robert Frost” will be presented at the Chapel in the Pines on March 24 at 10am. The performance is free!

Online Performance…

The performance will also be broadcast for free online by Humanities North Dakota at 3pm (Eastern) on March 28. Register for the online performance:

About the Performance…

When Robert Frost recited one of his poems at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961, he became the public face and voice of American poetry. Born in 1874, he lived in and wrote about New England, winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry a record-breaking four times. He travelled widely, teaching and reciting his poems at colleges. “It may look on the surface as if I’m saying just one thing,” Frost warned, “but I’m really talking contraries. I’m tricky like that.”

Anderson, a native of Texas now living in Wellfleet, is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Emerson College in Boston. He has performed as Frost at the Seattle Public Library, Southern Illinois and Louisiana State Universities, in conjunction with the Presidential Debates at Hofstra University in 2008 and 2012, and for the Ashland Chautauqua in Ohio. He also performs nationally as the writers Henry James, William Faulkner, Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, and others. He is a member of the Truro Playwright Collective, a Trustee of the Helltown Players, and a member of the board of the Open University of Wellfleet.