The third webinar exploring the work of Robinson Jeffers presented by the Robinson Jeffers Association and Tor House Foundation will be a panel discussion focused on “Shine, Perishing Republic,” “Shine, Republic,” and “Shine, Empire.” These three poems composed over a period of nearly twenty years from the early 1920s to 1940 remind us that Jeffers was not only a poet focused on the natural world but that he was also acutely responsive to politics and history.

Tim Hunt will, again, moderate, and our panelists will be:

• Shelley Alden Brooks, who teaches environmental history with a particular focus on California at UC Davis and who came to recognize Jeffers’ significance while working on Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape (UC Press, 2017).

• Whitney Hoth is particularly interested in Jeffers’ contributions to the literature of the Great War and its aftermath. He discovered Jeffers through a chance encounter with Cawdor and then studied Jeffers with Radcliffe Squires and Stephen Tonsor at the University of Michigan. He is Associate Editor of Jeffers Studies.

• Robert Zaller: author of three books on Jeffers, The Cliffs of Solitude, Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime, and The Atom To Be Split, recipient of the 2018 Lawrence Clark Powell Award for distinguished Jeffers scholarship, and a former RJA president.

The panel discussion will be January 28, 6:30-7:30 p.m. (PDT).

For a PDF handout of the three poems, please click here.

If you would like to attend the panel discussion, it will be available both via Zoom and Facebook. Information on how to access the program using these channels is included below. If you’re a Facebook user, please consider using the link below to “like” the re-launched Robinson Jeffers Association Facebook page. And if you have friends and colleagues who are not members of RJA or THF who might be interested in the program, please feel free to forward this message along.

To attend the webinar via Zoom, please register via the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q4WWJXi_ToW7tgBZ5Q3YRw

To attend the webinar via Facebook, please visit the RJA’s new page at
https://www.facebook.com/Robinson-Jeffers-Association-103498468113203
(the livestream will appear on the page’s timeline at 6:30 p.m. [PDT] on Wednesday, January 28).