Considering Jeffers: Anticipating the Jeffers Fall Festival | Zoom + Recorded
Course Description:The theme of this year's Jeffers Fall Festival, sponsored by the Tor House Foundation, is the relationship between poetry and politics. Jeffers's poem, now more than a century old, "Shine, Perishing Republic," is central to understanding that relationship as is his 1941 talk at the Library of Congress, "The Poet in a Democracy." The Festival will consider that question as well as some of the poems that address civilization's discontent. In this revealing session, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts and Susan Shillinglaw will consider four poems in connection with the Festival: "Shine, Perishing Republic," "The Purse-Seine," "Advice to Pilgrims," and "A Redeemer." |
Tuition: $10.00 Additional Fees: $0.00 |
Day/Time
Tuesday, Oct. 13 *10:00 a.m. – noon* (1 session)
Location
Livestream Zoom + Recorded: Join the session live on Zoom or watch the recording later. A recording link will be emailed to you within 1–2 days after the session.
Facilitator:
Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts is President Emeritus of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation and Professor Emeritus of Monterey Peninsula College, where he taught literature and humanities for over 30 years.
Susan Shillinglaw, Ph.D., is Vice President of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation and Professor of English Emerita at San José State University.