Ezra Pound once observed that poetry is “news that stays news,” and a mark of great poetry is its capacity to generate new and renewed explorations. Our fifth RJA-THF webinar will focus on three recent studies that can renew and extend our explorations of Robinson Jeffers’ poetry. Please set aside an hour to join us as Dr. Katharine Bubel, Dr. Brett Colasacco, and Dr. Geneva Gano introduce us to their recent research and share their insights into the nature and significance of Jeffers’ poetry.

“New Voices and New Directions in Jeffers Scholarship” is scheduled for Thursday, August 26, 2021, beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Pacific). Please click the link below to register.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__u2uhvLAQB6wMspw9Zn9sw

Speakers

Katharine Bubel’s recent PhD dissertation, “Edge Effects: Poetry, Place and Spiritual Practices” (University of Victoria), focuses on Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, Denise Levertov, Robert Hass, and Jan Zwicky, and the aesthetics of relinquishment and affirmation in these west coast poets. She is an assistant professor of English at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, where her research and teaching interests include American literature, twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry, and writings at the intersections of the religious and environmental imaginations.

Brett Colasacco is a graduate of the University of Chicago’s interdisciplinary program in religion, literature, and visual culture. His recent PhD dissertation, “Robinson Jeffers: Poet at the End of the World,” explores Jeffers through a revisionary account of modern theories of myth and their political dimensions. He serves as the executive director of the Robinson Jeffers Association and works as a writer, editor, and manager in the higher education industry, specializing in development and executive communications.

Geneva Gano, a past president of the Robinson Jeffers Association, is Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University. Her recent book, The Little Art Colony and US Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), considers the complex interplay of social, cultural, and economic factors in the emergence of Carmel as a little art colony, providing a new context for considering Jeffers’ importance to Carmel and Carmel’s importance to Jeffers and his poetry.