Ruth Witt-Diamant
Ruth Witt-Diamant was a professor at San Francisco State University from 1931. She founded and was the first director of the SFSU Poetry Center in 1954. In her youth, she traveled and taught English poetry in Japan, becoming good friends with the Tokugawa family. She hosted many famous poets in her guest room when she owned the house at 1520 Willard Street. Among the writers who slept here were Anaïs Nin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, James Broughton, Robert Lowell, Stephen Spender and Theodore Roethke. Dylan Thomas also was a frequent guest, and even wrote a poem[specify] about the seemingly magical and endless supply of beer from her refrigerator.
The Ruth Witt-Diamant Poetry Prize is awarded in her name by San Francisco State University Poetry Center.[1]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Lois Silverstein, Ph.D. (2006). "UNDER THE CANOPY: WRITING IN THE CONSULTING ROOM". Seminars and Education Programs. http://www.tpi-berkeley.org/04educ/04f06_09.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-04.[dead link]
