Welcome to Old Frog Pond Farm's eighth season of plein air poetry! This year’s plein air poetry features the work of 26 poets—and the poems reached new heights of beauty and poignancy. We are always awed by the quality and diversity of the responses.

As usual, the rules are simple: the poems are started en plein air at Old Frog Pond Farm, and the initiating impulse is from the farm's landscape, sculpture, or the poet's experience while walking the trails.

Every year we invite the public to join with the poets on a Sunday in mid-September and walk to the sites of inspiration where the poet reads his or her poem.

We are honored to have the online chapbook published by Pen & Anvil as part of their Hawk & Whippoorwill chapbook series which focuses on writing about the relationship between nature and humankind. Refuge can be viewed and downloaded at: at Pen and Anvil where you can also order printed copies.