Ruth Lepson is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In recent years she has been collaborating with musicians and is now a member of Box Lunch, a music/poetry group. Her books of poetry are I Went Looking for You (blazeVOX.org), Morphology (prose poems and photographs with artist Rusty Crump, also from blazeVOX.org), and Dreaming In Color (Alice James Books), and another is forthcoming from Pressed Wafer. She edited Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology (Univ. of Illinois) and is now on the editorial board of the online poetry journal EOAGH. Her poems have appeared in Jacket, EOAGH, Big Bridge, Shampoo, and dozens of other magazines and her prose in Jacket, Harvard Review, The Boston Phoenix and elsewhere. She has read on “All Things Considered,” at the Bowery Poetry Club, LaMama, and many other places. She has also performed with musicians at the Lily Pad and Outpost in Cambridge, at 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA, in Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, at The Cornelia Street Café and Douglass St. Studios in New York, and elsewhere.