Profile of Ruth Stone—winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry—who struggled after her husband's suicide in 1959 to care for her children and maintain a career. Includes archival footage of Stone plus interviews with family members, friends, and poets Toi Derricotte, Edward Hirsch, Major Jackson, and Sharon Olds.
