Electronic composition by Jean-Francois Claude and & flute by Mario Caroli, Paine Hall, Harvard University, Saturday, May 24, 8pm.

Ruth Lepson


Hi. I’m a poet & poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In recent years I’ve been collaborating with musicians, & previously I collaborated with visual artists & with other poets. I spend a lot of time at home doing paperwork. No one should have to do paperwork, but everyone should have some time for an art form. Artist Rusty Crump and I had a book of prose poems and photos, Morphology, published in 2007 by blazevox.org, which you can read as a free e-book or buy a copy of. Alice James Books published my other book of poems, Dreaming in Color, & in 2004 U of Illinois Press published Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, which I edited. My poems have been in many magazines, lately innovative ones, for example, Carve, There, listenlight. I’ve given many readings, & have a few coming up in NY and Philadelphia—see readings section. See too upcoming performances with musicians. Hope you have fun zipping around the site. I didn’t think I had done much but after looking at this website I feel tired. And excited. You?