Ruth Daigon

Ruth Daigon was the founder and editor of Poets On: for twenty years until it ceased publication. Her awards include The Eve of St. Agnes Award, The Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and The Greensboro Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in such print and online journals as Shenandoah, Negative Capability, Poet & Critic, Kansas Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly, Atlanta Review, Ariga, Crania, CrossConnect, Zuzu's Petals, and many others. She has been Poet-of-the-Month on The University of Chile's Pares Cum Paribus for a chapbook in both English and Spanish. Another of her chapbooks permanently resides on the Internet at Web Del Sol. She has read from her work Payday at the Triangle, based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of New York City in 1911, on location in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum of Manhattan. Her latest poetry collection, Handfuls of Time, will appear in 2002. She can be reached by email at or online at members.aol.com/ruthart/.