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.

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