Hoboken Historical Museum Kicks Off Poetry Festival

Hoboken NJ

25 March, 2022

11:19 AM

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Press release from The Hoboken Historical Museum: March 25, 2022 The Hoboken Historical Museum at 1301 Hudson Street announces the first event part of its 3 week Poetry Festival. "Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind," a new documentary of the revered poet by award-winning filmmaker Nora Jacobson will be shown on Sunday, March 27 at 4 pm. Running time is 76 mins, and filmmaker will be present. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here: https://hobho.me/ruthstone Ruth Stone was a promising young poet, living an idyllic life with her beloved husband, a poet and professor. When he died unexpectedly by suicide, Ruth was flung out into the world, destitute with three daughters to support. Ruth won many prestigious awards: the National Book Award for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships and the Delmore Schwartz Award. She was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Using an intimate approach, the film, 12 years in the making, combines verité footage of Ruth at different times of her life, reciting poetry and talking about how she writes, intertwined with lively and heartfelt observations of people who knew her. The film is enhanced with animation by granddaughter Bianca Stone, an accomplished poet and artist, and rare archival 16mm footage of Ruth entertaining students and reciting poetry. Nora Jacobson is an award-winning filmmaker of documentaries and narrative films. Her 1992 film "Delivered Vacant" chronicles eight years of housing wars in Hoboken, NJ, in the throes of its conversion from mostly affordable blue-collar city to a sought-after bedroom community for white-collar New Yorkers. Her films have screened at many festivals including Sundance and the New York Film Festival, and shown on PBS. For more information, click here: http://www.offthegridproductions.com/ The Poetry Festival continues with Danny Shot hosting award-winning poets on Sunday, April 3 and Sunday, April 10 at 4pm. This press release was produced by The Hoboken Historical Museum. The views expressed here are the author's own.