The poetry and fiction of Pam Bernard, Jim Beschta, Terry Farish,
John Hodgen, Rodger Martin, Susan Roney-O’Brien, and Rebecca Rule,
as well as emeritae Adelle Leiblein and Pat Fargnoli, have shaped the
Monadnock School of New Pastoral Poetry, now called the Mondadnock
Pastoral Poets and Writers.
Inhabiting the central New England region dominated by a magnificent
mountain, these writers have been brought together by landscape and
nature, writers who have devoted their lives to language, and who now
freely share their passion and knowledge.
Click on the photo of a mentor you wish to know more about.
 Pam Bernard |
 James Beschta |
 Terry Farish |
 John Hodgen |
 Rodger Martin |
 Diane Mulligan |
 Susan Roney-O’Brien |
 Rebecca Rule, emeritus |
 Pat Fargonoli, emeritus |
Samuel Clemens, May 31, 1906
“Monadnock is always impressive, always majestic, always beautiful, with a beauty whose phrases are
as manifold as those that are working their enchantments upon that valley yonder which stretches away
and away, on a morning like this, until its hundred shades of green melt into blue, and the blue becomes
a dream and melts and mingles with the base of heaven under the remote horizon.”
–Samuel Clemens,
Autobiography of Mark Twain,
(UCAL PRESS, Berkley: 2013)
