Please join us for

A Reading at Tor House

with

John Dotson & Neale Inglenook
Friday, September 30 at 7:00 p.m.

Admission:  $10

Join us to hear John Dotson, former Poet-in-Residence at Tor House, and Neale Inglenook, a recent Fellow of Tor House Foundation, discuss their experiences at Tor House, read their favorite Jeffers poems, and read from their own writing. Reception to follow.

John Dotson served as the first and only Poet-in-Residence at Tor House. In 1987, a report of that experience was published as The Enduring Voice: A Tor House Journal. Through the years, John has brought forth books of poetry and prose, plays, visual art in multiple modes, sculpture, and performances in various media. For twenty years he hosted the program "Ars Poetica?" on KAZU, Monterey Bay Public Radio. John has taught widely, at Santa Catalina School, at UC Santa Cruz–Ext and UC Irvine–Ext, and elsewhere. Since 2008, when Tor House Foundation co-sponsored the visit of Welsh poet Peter Thabit Jones and Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan Thomas, John has been entangled with the life and work of Dylan Thomas. John’s book Love For Ever Meridian: Finding Dylan Thomas in the 21st Century was published in 2012. Singing in My Chains: Hearing Dylan Thomas at the Birth of an Age is forthcoming. John serves as president of the Monterey Friends of C.G. Jung.

Neale Inglenook is a writer, husband, father, gardener, practitioner of wilderness skills and an editor for the Dark Mountain Project. The Manifesto of the Dark Mountain Project begins with Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Rearmament” and takes its name from the last two words of the poem. Neale has engaged with Robinson Jeffers’ work in writing for two decades. He was a Fellow of Tor House Foundation this past spring. His account of his time at Tor House, “Last Days at Tor House,” appears in the most recent Dark Mountain Journal. Grown from the California soil, he has recently relocated with his family to the woods of Maine. There, he and his wife are currently insulating a log cabin and installing a wood burning stove in preparation for settling there with their two young daughters. The cabin has no indoor plumbing and no electricity.

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Tor House is at 26304 Ocean View Avenue, Carmel