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News from Tor House

We’ve received some sad news from Tor House. Since our conference in February 2010, we have lost Tey Roberts, John Courtney, and John Hicks. All lived rich lives which included deep involvement with Jeffers, and we will miss all of them.

Vince Huth, the Tor House Foundation President, also sends along this news:
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 It will also be linked from the Tor House Foundation’s website. Use the full screen mode of your computer for best viewing. Enjoy this very fascinating video!

Thanks to Vince for working closely with RJA on our conferences and for informing us about events and developments at Tor House.

Jeffers Panel at West Chester Poetry Conference

The annual West Chester Poetry Conference, whose perennial subtitle is “Exploring Form and Narrative,” has become the largest all-poetry conference in the country. It regularly takes place during the second week of June, always at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Since the conference co-founders (Dana Gioia and Michael Peich) and its attendees have an interest in Jeffers, there have been several panels throughout the years devoted to his work.

This year, RJA President David J. Rothman chaired a panel on the first volume of the Collected Letters and introduced the topic. Papers were presented by Tim Hunt (“The Voice within the Voice: Hearing Jeffers’ Poetry through the Letters”), Robert Zaller (“‘A Terrible Genius’: Robinson Jeffers’ Art of Narrative”) and Erika Koss (“‘That Burning Flower’: Eros in the Letters of Robinson and Una Jeffers”). There were well over 50 people in the room, making it one of the larger audiences for an academic panel on Jeffers this year.