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(1915-2011) Poet. Ruth Stone was born in Roanoke, Virginia, and died in Ripton, Vermont.

Full Name

Ruth Stone

Locations

Broome

Author's Timeline


1915

BIRTH

Ruth Swan Perkins was born in Roanoke, Virginia, on June 8, 1915. She married Walter Stone.

1959

LITWORK

In An Iridescent Time


Collection of poetry.

1971

LITWORK

Topography And Other Poems
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
ISBN-10: 0151904952 / ISBN-13: 978-0151904952
Collection of poems.

1975

LITWORK

Cheap: New Poems And Ballads
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
ISBN-10: 0151170347 / ISBN-13: 978-0151170340
Collection of poems.

1987

LITWORK

Second-Hand Coat
David R Godine Pub, Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
ISBN-10: 0879236795 / ISBN-13: 978-0879236793
Collection of poetry.

1988

OTHER

Ms. Stone began teaching at the State University of New York in Binghamton, New York, in 1988, and taught there for about ten years.

1991

LITWORK

Who Is The Widow's Muse?
Yellow Moon Press.
ISBN-10: 093875632X / ISBN-13: 978-0938756323
Collection of poems.

1996

LITWORK

Simplicity
Paris Press.
ISBN-10: 0963818317 / ISBN-13: 978-0963818317
Collection of poems.

1999

LITWORK

Ordinary Words
Paris Press.
ISBN-10: 0963818392 / ISBN-13: 978-0963818393
Collection of poems.

2002

LITWORK

In The Next Galaxy
Copper Canyon Press.
ISBN-10: 1556591780 / ISBN-13: 978-1556591785
Collection of poems, recipient of the National Book Award.

2004

LITWORK

In The Dark
Copper Canyon Press.
ISBN-10: 1556592108 / ISBN-13: 978-1556592102
Collection of poems.

2008

LITWORK

What Love Comes To: New And Selected Poems
Copper Canyon Press.
ISBN-10: 155659271X / ISBN-13: 978-1556592713
Collection of poems. A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

2011

DEATH

Ruth Stone died at her home in Ripton, Vermont, on November 19, 2011.

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