Ruth Stone Documentary Screening and Discussion

Past event
May 18, 2024, 7 to 10 PM

Join us on May 18 at 7 p.m. at the Brandon Inn, for the first-ever Brandon screening of filmmaker Nora Jacobson's documentary, Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind, about the legendary poet and teacher who made her home in Goshen, VT. In addition to the screening, her granddaughter, Bianca Stone, recently named Vermont's Poet Laureate, will read a poem.

Afterward, Ruth Stone House Executive Director Ben Pease and Bianca Stone will also talk with the audience about the creation of a unique community center for poetry and the literary arts at the historic farmhouse in Goshen.

They will be there to answer your questions and discuss the exciting and important work unfolding around the arts in our community.

Free admission.

All community members are welcome to attend this special evening.
Refreshments will be served, and the bar will be open!

Praise for the film:

"A film twelve years in the making, the doc is a concise and deep dive into the writing and personal life of the 2007 Vermont Poet Laureate. From poets Sharon Olds, Major Jackson, and Chard deNiord to her massive family, the film weaves these interviews with gorgeously rendered visual storytelling from granddaughter and noted poet and artist, Bianca Stone, along with forty years of archival footage of the cavalcade of family and now-famous artists and writers who visited her Goshen home—a central character throughout the film... But the highlight has to be Stone herself. Her musings and memories. The recitation and free-versing. Her mind whirling, live-editing, rhapsodizing, creating genius right before us, and like any brilliant star, accessing and accepting the chaotic wonder of the world."

—Dayton Shafer, Film Critic, Vermont College of Fine Arts

"I keep on thinking about the way this film both collapses and also elongates time: this is quite electrifying for me, because this is one of the qualities of our mental and physical lives that absorbs me most, as a writer. And your film has captured this sensation, with Ruth as a kind of fulcrum, which is what the voice in her poems also carries."

—Jim Schley, Poet, Editor

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The Brandon Inn, Park Street, Brandon, VT

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