Dear friends,
I would like to invite you to the evening of poetry of the American poet Robinson Jeffers. Our guest is Professor Elliot Roberts, Vice President of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, author of many books inspired by live and work of Jeffers. Professor will read verses, answer your questions and also he will invite his own guest Táňa Fischerová, Czech actress, who will read verses in Czech.
So the programme is bilingual.
This event will be held in Central Library (Mariánské náměstí 1) on September 16 at 6:30 pm at the Big Hall (downstairs).
Free admission!!!! It's not necessary to book a seat, because Big Hall has capacity almost 400 seats.
Some information about Elliot Roberts:
Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts is co-author of Bowing to Receive the Mountain: Essays by Lin Jensen and Poems by Elliot Roberts (Sunflower Ink: Carmel, CA, 1997); co-editor/co-translator of two works of poetry from the Telugu: Chalam's Sudha (Nectar) (Motilal Banarsidass/ UNESCO: Delhi, 1990) and Selected Verses of Vemana (Sahitya Akademi: New Delhi, 1995); and co-editor of the college text Bridges (Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1972). He has published two chapbooks of poetry and his poems have appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Dancing on the Brink of the World: Selected Poems of Point Lobos, The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets: 2004, caesura: the 25th anniversary edition, and The Homestead Review. His poem “The Scrub Jay” was set to a musical score by pianist/composer David Clay and had its world premier at the New Music Works Avant Garden Party in Santa Cruz. His four poems that appeared in Dancing on the Brink of the World have been translated into Spanish and published in the El Nuevo Diario newspaper(Managua, Nicaragua). He has read his poetry at various venues on the Monterey Peninsula.
As Vice President of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel, Mr. Ruchowitz-Roberts coordinates the Foundation’s annual Poetry and Performance Series and its annual Prize for Poetry, for which he is a preliminary judge. He also presents an annual benefit reading and is one of four poets in the annual “Robinson Jeffers at Point Sur” tour and reading.
Mr. Ruchowitz-Roberts lives in Carmel Highlands with his wife Tey. He has three adult children and seven grandchildren. He is President/Chair of the non-profit Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur and Chair of the Monterey County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
