Ruchowitz-Roberts has taught the poetry of Robinson Jeffers at Monterey Peninsula College and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). Tickets: General Admission $20 (includes free admission to the museum the day of the event), Members $5Įlliot Ruchowitz-Roberts serves as President of the Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House Foundation in Carmel, where he coordinates the Foundation’s annual Prize for Poetry, the annual reading series, and serves as a tour docent. Ruchowitz-Roberts will recite the poetry that inspired the title of this exhibition and share in depth knowledge about how Robinson Jeffers’ has influenced the artist and his practice for nearly two decades. Cookshaw has received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry and the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize.Join Tor House Foundation President Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts for a tour through the exhibition The Fire of Heaven: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers.

Lunar Shift (2006) is a chronology of poems that ostensibly marches through time, from 4241 BC, the first numbered date in human history, to a hotel tryst in Room 39. Shameless (2002) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She has been associated with the quarterly literary journal Malahat Review since 1985 and was its editor until 2004. Since receiving her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria in 1984, she has taught at the Victoria School of Writing and served on juries for various writing awards, including the Dorothy Livesay Prize for Poetry, the Archibald Lampman Award, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, BC Festival of the Arts literary scholarships, and the BC Arts Council and provincial scholarships.

Born and raised in south Alberta, Marlene Cookshaw now lives on Pender Island and in Victoria, B.C.

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