Prize for Poetry - the 2013 Winning Poems

Click here to see the winners!

2013 Reading and Performance Series

Check out this year's reading and performance series on our Events and Activities page!

The 2013 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry

Click on our Poetry Prize page for information for submitting poems for the 2013 Prize for Poetry.

Monterey County Gives!

Tor House has been selected by the Monterey County Weekly to participate in their Monterey County Gives! campaign.  By donating to Tor House through Monterey County Weekly, your gift will receive matching funds, probably about 14% of your gift. 

The November 8th edition of Monterey County Weekly spotlights all the participating organizations.

Go to www.mcgives.com to make your donation.  See the information about Tor House here - select an alphabetical list of the non-profits -or- click on Arts & Culture, then select Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation.

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Robinson Jeffers -

The Poet Is Dead Broadside

 

A eulogy by William Everson for Jeffers.  Etching of Tor House in snow by Tom Killian.  Printed on handmade paper by Peter and Donna Thomas, Santa Cruz. 11x15, limited edition of 50 prints, $80 each (includes tax) to benefit Tor House Foundation.

After Jeffers passed in 1962, William Everson, along with many other followers of Jeffers' work, were asked to write elegies to the poet and his life's work.  Bill Everson, a devoted follower of Jeffers wrote "The Poet is Dead" as his tribute.  This commemorative broadside presents the first three stanzas of the poem.  The second stanza was added a few years later to emphasize the environment surrounding the night of Jeffers passing:

Snow on the headland,

Rare on the coast of California. 

Snow on Point Lobos,

Falling all night,

Filling the creeks and the back country,

The strangely beautiful

Setting of death.

These lines were used by the artist Tom Killian to depict Tor House (and in another etching, Pt Lobos) in snowfall.  This aspect of the poem underlines Jeffers' tight association with the environment of his home in Carmel, California. 

Peter Thomas was commissioned by Tor House Foundation to print the broadside.  Peter worked directly with Everson at Lime Kiln Press at UCSC on the monumental book Granite and Cypress, a fine art book tribute to Jeffers poetry.  Peter later printed a limited edition book of The Poet is Dead for Everson, from which this broadside is inspired. 

You may purchase the broadside directly from Tor House when you visit. Or contact Tor House Docent and Photography Archivist Alan Stacy at astacy@haiku-productions.com for more information or to purchase a print by mail. $80 plus shipping.  Prints 1 - 19 are sold.