Poetry. Introduction by Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts. Photography by Chuck Bancroft. John Dotson was the first poet-in-residence of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel, California. His book portraying that experience is The Enduring Voice, A Tor House Journal. John has published poetry and prose internationally. He also works in many art forms, media, and performance. In the fall of 2007, his play Without Why will be staged at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel. John has also worked as an educator in many settings in California and elsewhere. John Dotson (born 1950, Kingsport, Tennessee) is an author, artist, and educator who resides in Carmel, California. John has more than fifteen published books of poetry, prose, and art. His book The Enduring Voice (Mariposa Press, 1987) reflects his experience as the first poet-in-residence of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, of which he was also a trustee for many years. His poems have been published widely in the US and internationally, with several works translated into Czech and Russian, and published in Prague, St. Petersburg, and Moscow (forthcoming). John organized the Monterey appearance of Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones in the Dylan Thomas Tribute Tour of America, organized by Stanley H, Barkan in consultation with Vince Clemente, in the spring of 2008. As editor, John selected essays and wrote the introduction to Radiant Days (University of Utah Press, 1994), writings by Enos Mills, the John Muir of Colorado, and wrote the main article on Mills for The Encyclopedia of American Nature Writers (Scribner's, 1996). He has also edited works of poetry and prose by many internationally published poets and authors, and for many years supervised large editing projects for a major US publisher. John s first play, It's Always Something, was produced in Tennessee (2000); his second play, Without Why, was staged in Carmel (2007). He is writing a third play based on the life of George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. John has also worked extensively in film/video, radio broadcasting, and various performance arts. He has performed in California and New York. He has exhibited his large-scale, mixed-media sculpture which he describes as postmodern-primitive. John taught and was dean of faculty for nineteen years at Santa Catalina School in Monterey. He has taught a wide range of courses in philosophy, psychology, media studies, and creative process at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Irvine Extensions, the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Monterey Peninsula Friends of C. G. Jung, and through the Arts Council of Monterey County. For several years, John worked as a management consultant, bringing applications of chaos/complexity theory to executive leadership sessions. John is a graduate of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (B.S., Communications and Philosophy) and also studied at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is a director of the Monterey Peninsula Friends of C. G. Jung and an active participant in the International Jean Gebser Society for the Study of Culture and Communication.