Dates: Saturday and Sunday, April 28 - 29, 2001

Location: Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico

Conference Theme: Robinson Jeffers and the Circle of Mabel Dodge Luhan

The 2001 Conference of the RJA will be held at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, where the Jeffers family vacationed for several summers in the 1930s, and where Jeffers's hostess hoped he would find inspiration to redeem the modern world through a connection to primal vitality.

The Association welcomes talks that examine Jeffers's works in relation to any aspect of the American Southwest, either in his own life and work, or in relation to other artists, writers, and thinkers such as D. H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, John Reed, Amy Lowell, Edward Abbey and many others. The Association also welcomes submissions for a related panel on "Jeffers and Wilderness."