“Much like the places Ruth Lepson affectionately describes in her poems, her themes are timeless. Her words are heart-felt and artfully laid out. The poems are lively in their melancholy and accepting in the face of mortality. Passionately human, I Went Looking for You is a collection that feels at once familiar and astounding.” from The Harvard Crimson

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 jazz/poetry group. Her books 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). She edited Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology (Univ. of Illinois). 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, at The Cornelia Street Café and Douglass St. Studios in New York, and elsewhere.