WORDS FOR THE WIND (212 pp.)—Theodore Roethke—Doubleday ($4). The shape of a rat? It’s bigger than that. It’s less than a leg And more than a nose, Just under the water It usually goes. Like the rat ...
Today's start of National Poetry Month brings new recognition to the late Theodore Roethke, the legendary teacher at the University of Washington who is arguably the Northwest's most distinguished ...
THE FAR FIELD by Theodore Roefhke. 95 pages. Doubleday. $3.50. “What I love is near at hand, / Always, in earth and air,” Theodore Roethke wrote in the title poem of this last collection. What he ...
Budding writers, nature lovers, creative individuals and literary historians are invited to participate in the inaugural Roethke Poetry Retreat set to take place May 3-5 in Saginaw, hosted by the ...