Arborist · Poet · Lifelong Listener
Warren Woods
and Other Poems
150 poems from a man who has spent a lifetime listening to trees
"Poems from the woods,
words from a life in the trees."
Arborist · Poet · Lifelong Listener
150 poems from a man who has spent a lifetime listening to trees
"Poems from the woods,
words from a life in the trees."
Rob Frothingham — With a handmade mountain dulcimer.
"He is not a poet imagining the woods. He is a woodsman who writes."
Rob Frothingham is a veteran arborist who has spent decades working in the canopy—sensing roots and their fungal companions, attending to the slow language of living wood. Poetry has been his companion through all of it.
His work doesn't come from a writing workshop or an academic perch. It comes from the ground up: from forests, from labor, from memory, from the kind of stillness that only years in the woods can teach.
Spiritually curious but never preachy. Occasionally wry. Always grounded. Rob writes what he sees and hears in the natural world. He honors both microorganisms and mystics.
150 short poems written across decades of lived experience. Rooted in forests, relationships, memory, labor, and transcendence.
"Mr Frothingham's poetry is a delightful collection of sublime, gentle, sometimes humorous, sometimes intense verse."
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There is something different about hearing these poems in Rob's own voice — unhurried, grounded, a woodsman's cadence. Listen to him read the opening of Warren Woods.
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