MONTPELIER - Robert Frost's poetry is known, among other things, for its ability to evoke the seasons of New England in all their complexity of contradicting emotional states.

Join Peter Gilbert, the Vermont Humanities Council's Executive Director and the executor of Frost's estate, in reading and discussing some of Frost's winter and early spring poems at the Vermont Humanities Council at 11 Loomis Street in Montpelier. Gilbert will lead a series of three evenings in which some of Frost's seasonal poems are examined and discussed. The programs run on February 18, and March 25. All are welcome.

The monthly discussions will focus on the following poems by Frost:

FEBRUARY 18 * A Winter Eden * The Woodpile

* Good Hours

* An Old Man's Winter Night

* Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter

MARCH 25 * To the Thawing Wind

* A Patch of Old Snow

* Evening in a Sugar Orchard

* A Hillside Thaw * Questioning Faces

* The Thatch

Participants are invited to either read the poems in advance or read them upon arriving. Refreshments served. RSVPs are encouraged, at (802) 262-2626, ext. 307, but spur of the moment participants are welcome. Discussion will start at 5:30 p.m. and end by 6:30 p.m