Hi everyone! I know a lot of you are either deeply interested in poetry (and the creative process) or are poets yourself -- I thought you'd like to know about this upcoming event at SPACE Gallery!
FILM SCREENING: Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind
Director Nora Jacobson and Poet Chard DeNiord appearing in person
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2022
7:00 PM to 8:45 PM
38 CONGRESS ST, PORTLAND, ME 04101
Ruth Stone was a promising young poet, living an idyllic life with her beloved husband Walter Stone, a poet and professor when he died unexpectedly by suicide in 1959. Already a published poet with one book out titled In An Iridescent Time at the time of Walter's death, Ruth found a way to continue writing while raising her three young daughters and teaching at various universities around the country as an itinerant poet. Nora Jacobson's film Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind chronicles Stone's heroic life story as a poet, mother, and teacher in a 76 minute film that leaves its viewers inspired, enlightened, entertained, and uplifted. A visually beautiful film, that incorporates rare archival footage and hand-made animation by Ruth's granddaughter Bianca, Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind captures the rural grist of Stone's heroic career, leaving no question as to why she has become both a Vermont and national treasure.
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