The Robinson Jeffers Association (RJA) is a not-for-profit organization whose members read, discuss, study and teach the work of one of America’s greatest poets, Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). The Association publishes a journal, Jeffers Studies, holds an annual conference and offers a wide range of resources for scholars, critics, teachers, students and general readers. Please join us – all are welcome.
News
2013 Conference Schedule Posted
February 6, 2013
The 2013 Robinson Jeffers Conference is posted here.… Read More >>
2013 RJA Conference to be held in Charleston, SC; Nikky Finney will deliver keynote address
October 20, 2012
The Robinson Jeffers Association is pleased to announce that the 2013 RJA Conference will be held February 15-17 in beautiful, historic Charleston, SC., the city that was was named the #1 tourist destination in the world earlier this week. RJA is also … Read More >>
Ripple Huth, scholar, docent, and dear friend of RJA, remembered
October 9, 2012
RJA extends deepest condolences to the family of Ripple Huth, our dear friend and colleague who passed away on 3 October. One could always count on Ripple’s kindness and generosity, and her immeasurable contribution to Jeffers studies will endure. A … Read More >>
Continent’s End
At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain,
wreathed with wet poppies, waiting spring,
The ocean swelled for a far storm and beat its boundary,
the ground-swell shook the beds of granite.
I gazing at the boundaries of granite and spray,
the established sea-marks, felt behind me
Mountain and plain, the immense breadth of the continent,
before me the mass and double stretch of water.
I said: You yoke the Aleutian seal-rocks with the lava
and coral sowings that flower the south,
Over your flood the life that sought the sunrise faces ours
that has followed the evening star.
The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you,
you have forgotten us, mother.
You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb
and lay in the sun’s eye on the tideline. (more…)