From Occidental College
He was an ardent early environmentalist and a preeminent literary light of his day. He also was distinctly associated with a particular place -- the West Coast. Now Robinson Jeffers, a prominent pacifist, anti-imperialist and one of three poets ever to make the cover of Time magazine, will be remembered anew and honored this fall as part of the Big Read, a national program that aims to restore reading as a central part of American culture and to reinstill the power of literature to change lives. His alma mater has won support from a national humanities grant to put on programs about Jeffers with 20 local schools and organizations, including Friends of the LA River and the Historical Society of Southern California.
Photo: Robinson Jeffers in 1933 / Edward Weston, Oxy Jeffers Collection
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