In Her Own Words
Memorial Tribute TonightRUTH STONE
10 minutes
Aged 93 at the time of this film, she was still writing poetry of extraordinary variety and radiance. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her in Vermont, September 2008. Ruth was almost blind but knew many of her poems by heart.
Born in Virginia in 1915, she lived in rural Vermont for much of her life. In 1959, after her husband committed suicide, she raised three daughters, all the time writing what she called her
'love poems to a dead man'.
She died in November of last year at 96.
7PM
With Toi Derricotte, Bill Goodman, Philip Levine, Gerald Stern, Abigail Stone, Bianca Stone, and Michael Wiegers
NYU
NYU
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street-2nd floor theater
36 East 8th Street-2nd floor theater
Books Included
What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize; In the Dark (2004); In the Next Galaxy (2002), which received the 2010 National Book Award; and Ordinary Words (Paris Press, 1999), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize; In the Dark (2004); In the Next Galaxy (2002), which received the 2010 National Book Award; and Ordinary Words (Paris Press, 1999), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Reception
hosted by the Creative Writing Program
at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
58 West 10th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Both Free And Open To The Public
No RSVP Required
No RSVP Required
Interview
2008
1 comment:
the local news said that 8pm was the best viewing time. hope i can see it. if it's real low, there may be too many things in the way.
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