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Commemorating the
50th Anniversary of the Death of Poet Robinson Jeffers
“The Beginning and the End”
- The Tor House Foundation is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the
death of poet Robinson Jeffers with talks and readings by Jeffers’
great-grandson Aengus Jeffers and poets Simon Hunt, George Lober and
Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts
Friday, January 20th,
7 p.m.
Parlor of the East
Wing of Tor House, 26304 Ocean View, Carmel
Benefit for Tor House: $25 donation requested
Reservations required
For reservations
and/or more information: 624-5725
Jeffers’ great-grandson Aengus Jeffers and poets
Simon Hunt, George Lober and Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts will read from
Jeffers’ poetry and talk about what led them to their admiration of it.
All four serve on the Tor House Foundation’s Board of Directors and as
tour docents.
Aengus Jeffers
received his B.S in Geology from Williams College and his J.D. from
Hastings College of Law. At Hastings he was publication editor for
West by Northwest Environmental Law
Journal. He practices law
in Monterey, specializing in land use, water law and real estate.
Simon Hunt, born in
Bulawayo in what is now Zimbabwe and raised in England and the United
States, is an instructor in English at Santa Catalina School in
Monterey. He co-edited
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) and contributed an essay to
that volume. His poems, primarily formal in structure, have
appeared in Troubadour,
Court Green,
Light Quarterly,
The Raintown Review,
and The Sewanee Review,
among other publications, as well as in the on-line journals
14 by 14
and The Chimaera.
George Lober, an
instructor at the Naval Post Graduate School, is former recipient of the
Ruth Cable Memorial Prize for Poetry as well as a recipient of both the
Rear Admiral John Jay Schieffelin Award for Teaching Excellence and the
Allen Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is author of
two volumes of poetry, Shift of Light
and Bridge to There.
His poems have appeared in numerous journals and publications.
Elliot
Ruchowitz-Roberts, Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College, is
co-editor of the college text Bridges;
co-editor/co-translator of two works from the Telugu,
Sudha (Nectar)
by Chalam and The Selected Verses of
Vemana,; and co-author of
Bowing to Receive the Mountain: Essays
by Lin Jensen and Poetry by Elliot Roberts.
His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, most
recently Fire and Ink: An
Anthology of Social Action Writing and
Ping-Pong, the Journal of the Henry
Miller Library.
The Robinson Jeffers Tor House 2012 Poetry Prize Announcement
The announcement of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Poetry Prize for 2012 is now available on our Prize page. It documents the rules and the process for entering.
News ... News ... News
Check out this article in VIA, AAA's travel magazine in Northern California, featuring our very own Hawk Tower!
2012 Reading and Performance Series
Check out this year's reading and performance series on our Events and Activities page!
Video
The Tor House Foundation just received a digitally remastered 1967 Robinson Jeffers Documentary video link from Alex Cherian, Film Archivist from the SF Bay Area TV Archive to view. The publicly available film link Rhapsody & Requiem - The Life of Robinson Jeffers is now available to view online at diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189961. This is a digitally remastered KPIX-TV 1967 documentary film about Robinson Jeffers: Rhapsody & Requiem - The Life of Robinson Jeffers. This online video is best viewed on the full screen mode of your computer. It is a very fascinating video.
On-Line Bookstore
Our publications include several which are available only from the Tor House bookstore. Other merchandise for sale includes Jeffers-related CDs, DVDs, note cards and works of art.
A Tor House Exclusive - Tor House is pleased to announce the re-issuing of The Stone Mason of Tor House by Melba Berry Bennett.
Melba Berry Bennett won the affection of both Jeffers and Una and after Una’s
death became Jeffers’ secretary and worked with him until the end of his life.
The result is a biography rich in detail and true to its subject. Jeffers
did not reveal himself often to others, so his and Una’s friendship with Bennett
represented an unusual opportunity for Bennett to produce an authoritative,
sensitive portrait of the poet.
This handsome edition, with slipcase, is available exclusively through the Tor
House Bookstore, including at our online store.
Mission
The mission of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation is:
To preserve Tor House, Hawk Tower and their collections
To promote the literary and philosophical legacy of Robinson Jeffers for the enrichment and enlightenment of the public
To serve the community as a cultural resource
(Adopted by the Board of Trustees,
March 1998)
For more information on the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, our events and our organization, click on a link below.
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Foundation * 26304 Ocean View Ave * Carmel, CA 93923 * 831-624-1813 * Fax
831-624-3696
Carol Dixon, Administrative Assistant for Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation
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