![]() ![]() ![]() Many visitors, however, come with little or no knowledge of Robinson Jeffers or his poetry, having discovered Tor House listed on Trip Advisor (#5 of 132 Top Attractions in Carmel) or Planetware (#7 of the 12 top-rated attractions in Carmel) or on Yelp (a 4.5 out of 5 rating). Poets and writers as well: Terry Tempest Williams, Tobias Wolff, George Elliott Clarke (Poet Laureate of Canada from 2012 to 2015), Coleman Barks (poet and translator of Rumi), poets Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux and Billie Collins (all of whom served as final judges for the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry), and Dana Gioia (recent Poet Laureate of California) accompanied by composer Morten Lauridsen. ![]() Some of the visitors have a more than a passing interest in Jeffers: the scholars from the Robinson Jeffers Association, which holds its annual conference in Carmel and those who have discovered Jeffers on their own and have been taken by his work. Visitors to Tor House have come from as close as Carmel, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Seaside, Marina, and Salinas and as from as far away as Beijing, China the Czech Republic Stockholm, Sweden Ontario, Canada and Switzerland and from many places in-between: Mobile, Alabama Rochester, Minnesota Stockholm, Wisconsin Calabash, North Carolina Ironwood, Michigan Greensburg, Louisiana Clive, Iowa and Hanalei, Hawai’i. ELLIOT RUCHOWITZ-ROBERTS, PRESIDENT, TOR HOUSE FOUNDATION
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