He was a Fellow of Tor House Foundation this past spring.

Neale has engaged with Robinson Jeffers’ work in writing for two decades. The Manifesto of the Dark Mountain Project begins with Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Rearmament” and takes its name from the last two words of the poem. Neale Inglenook is a writer, husband, father, gardener, practitioner of wilderness skills and an editor for the Dark Mountain Project. John serves as president of the Monterey Friends of C.G. Singing in My Chains: Hearing Dylan Thomas at the Birth of an Age is forthcoming. John’s book Love For Ever Meridian: Finding Dylan Thomas in the 21st Century was published in 2012.

Since 2008, when Tor House Foundation co-sponsored the visit of Welsh poet Peter Thabit Jones and Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan Thomas, John has been entangled with the life and work of Dylan Thomas. John has taught widely, at Santa Catalina School, at UC Santa Cruz–Ext and UC Irvine–Ext, and elsewhere. For twenty years he hosted the program 'Ars Poetica?' on KAZU, Monterey Bay Public Radio. Through the years, John has brought forth books of poetry and prose, plays, visual art in multiple modes, sculpture, and performances in various media. In 1987, a report of that experience was published as The Enduring Voice: A Tor House Journal. John Dotson served as the first and only Poet-in-Residence at Tor House. Join us to hear John Dotson, former Poet-in-Residence at Tor House, and Neale Inglenook, a recent Fellow of Tor House Foundation, discuss their experiences at Tor House, read their favorite Jeffers poems, and read from their own writing. Please join us for A Reading at Tor House with John Dotson & Neale Inglenookįriday, September 30 at 7:00 p.m.

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