Roethke Museum 4/26/21 Roethke Museum 4/26/21

May 4 Virtual Spring Reading Series: “A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke,” featuring Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Peter Balakian

Join us May 4 at 7:00 p.m. for the first of four installments of our Spring Reading Series event: “A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke,” celebrating the new book of essays on Roethke's poetry edited by William Barillas and published by Ohio University Press.

The May 4 event features contributing essayist and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian, of Colgate University, speaking about Roethke's poem "Give Way, Ye Gates."

Roethke Museum 4/14/21 Roethke Museum 4/14/21

April 20 Virtual Spring Reading Series: “Even the Least of These” (featuring Anita Skeen and Laura Delind)

Join us on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 7:00 pm EST for our Spring Reading Series event: Even the Least of These featuring Anita Skeen and Lauren Delind.

Roethke Museum 4/7/21 Roethke Museum 4/7/21

April 13 Virtual Spring Reading Series: Take a Stand, Art Against Hate with Tess Gallagher

Join us on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 7:00 pm EST for our Spring Reading Series event: Take a Stand, Art Against Hate with Tess Gallagher.

Roethke Museum 4/1/21 Roethke Museum 4/1/21

April 6 Spring Reading Series: Hooper and Taylor

Roethke Museum 3/7/21 Roethke Museum 3/7/21

March 16 Virtual Spring Reading Series with Rosie King and Robert Fanning

We are excited to kick off our Spring Reading Series with Roethke’s Garden: Bringing Poets Together a reading by Rosie King and Robert Fanning on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 7:00 pm EST.

Roethke Museum 12/8/20 Roethke Museum 12/8/20

Dec 15 Virtual Speaker Series with Jessica Farrell

Roethke Museum 12/5/20 Roethke Museum 12/5/20

Dec 8 Virtual Speaker Series with Tess Gallagher and Alice Derry

Roethke Museum 11/16/20 Roethke Museum 11/16/20

Virtual Speaker Series Continues with Patricia Clark and Fleda Brown

Roethke Museum 9/7/20 Roethke Museum 9/7/20

Roethke’s Virtual September Talks: Kolleth and Vaughn

Roethke Museum 8/13/20 Roethke Museum 8/13/20

Summer Series, August 18: Sherrin Frances

Roethke Museum 8/12/20 Roethke Museum 8/12/20

The Stone House gets a new roof

Roethke Museum 8/6/20 Roethke Museum 8/6/20

Summer Series continues August 11 with Ken Meisel and Jeff Vande Zande.

Roethke Museum 8/5/20 Roethke Museum 8/5/20

After 20 years of Literary Picnics in a Poet’s Backyard, Roethke House has gone Virtual

Roethke Museum 7/27/20 Roethke Museum 7/27/20

Roethke Virtual Summer Series begins August 4

Roethke Museum 6/2/20 Roethke Museum 6/2/20

FOTR awarded grants totaling $7,000

Support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and from the Michigan Humanities Council will help with operational costs, seasonal activities, and fundraising efforts to save the Stone House.

Roethke Museum 5/25/20 Roethke Museum 5/25/20

Happy 112th birthday, Theodore Roethke