Poems from Robert Frost won the 2025 Lisa Brannan Prize for emerging poets. 

‘Frank, charming, deeply pacifist and slightly off-kilter poems about the pleasures and hardships of an unconventional life.’ – Kathryn Scanlan, author of Kick the Latch and Aug 9 – Fog.

‘Every time I read these poems I love them more. They give me that dizzy lurch feeling that happens when I sit on a stalled train and see another train moves past, when movement and stillness collapse in my stomach. Their form propulsive and arresting, their emotion deep and righteous, their energy atomic. I’m so glad I got to read them, glad you get to read them. All love and praise to mosquitoes with broken noses, pharmacists who’ll sell syringes without prescriptions, and poets who testify to place, people, and experience in gentleness and rage.’ – Laura Henriksen, author of Duvall, Shelley and judge of the 2025 Lisa Brannan Prize.    

Captivated by the Facebook updates of an old high school friend, Robert Frost, and his increasingly nomadic lifestyle, poet and novelist Stacy Skolnik has shaped these posts into new poems and an idiosyncratic and tender portrait of a life lived on the furthermost edges of American society. 

Published May 2026. Available to pre-order now.