This talk is part of the “Roethke & …” virtual series. Contemporary poets and scholars will discuss Roethke's influence on their own work and on other poets, past & present.

Join Floet and Keairra for an evening of writing, sharing, and open mic practicing. All skill levels welcome.

This talk is part of the “Roethke & …” virtual series. Contemporary poets and scholars will discuss Roethke's influence on their own work and on other poets, past & present.

Combine poetry and visual art by collaging found objects and words into a small, hardcover accordion-style artist book.

This talk is part of the “Roethke & …” virtual series. Contemporary poets and scholars will discuss Roethke's influence on their own work and on other poets, past & present.

Join us for advice on getting behind the mic to make your poem stand out at spoken word events, slams, and open mic. Talk with Becky about her recent slam experiences, tips on how to write poetry for the ear and more.

Spoken Word poets with any level of experience, join Floet and Miss Jones for an evening of writing and sharing our work. ALSO, we'll talk about the upcoming slam at Hoyt Library. Free and open to the public.

Join us for a party based on Roethke’s “Party at the Zoo.” Children’s open mic, animal crackers and ice cream, and a snake!

Formerly of Saginaw, Montana poet Marc Beaudin will read and discuss new and collected poems exploring the concept of poetry as the art of listening.

Formerly of Saginaw, Montana poet Marc Beaudin will lead a 90-minute workshop that explores the crafting of poems through the art of listening—to the world around and within us, as well as to the music of the poem that guides its writing.

People of all abilities, skill level, and interest are invited to join Cleric in this paper-making workshop for a fun experience crafting and creating.

Join the Asterix* and the Friends of Roethke Foundation for a poetry writing workshop with Donny Winter at Lolobee's Lounge in Bay City, MI!

Spoken Word poets--new poets, experienced poets, even those who love spoken word but don't consider themselves poets (yet!)--join Floet and Keairra for an evening of writing and sharing our work.

Helen Raica-Klotz will read from her fiction collection, Superior Stories, winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest. Helen's stories explore the lives of people who live in the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Keweenaw.

At the Roethke House and online via Zoom.

Will you be at the Andersen Enrichment Center’s annual Art and Garden Festival? So will we!

Please join us for writer Carrie Duke's talk on Theodore Roethke's poem "Transplanting" and greenhouse memories.

The annual Virtual Roethke Scholars series features contributors to A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke and is organized by editor William Barillas.

Please join us for writer David Radavich's talk on Theodore Roethke's poem "Elegy for Jane" and the nature of grief.

The annual Virtual Roethke Scholars series features contributors to A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke and is organized by editor William Barillas.

Please join us for writers Marcia Noe and Laura Duncan’s talk on Theodore Roethke's poem "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale. 

The annual Virtual Roethke Scholars series features contributors to A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke and is organized by editor William Barillas.

Please join us for writer Edward Morin's talk on Theodore Roethke's poem "The Rose" and nature mysticism.

The annual Virtual Roethke Scholars series features contributors to A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke and is organized by editor William Barillas.

Brad Johnson, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Competition for Smuggling Elephants Through Airport Security, will discuss locality, humor and rhyme, essential elements found in Theodore Roethke’s work that aren't always present in today’s poetry.

Join us in MARCH for poetry book club. This month we are reading Ode poetry. For the first half we will read and listen to some examples of Ode poetry and then you will have time to write your own Ode.

How do we navigate painful times in our lives? As one who has experienced all kinds of tragedies, trauma, including war, cancer, the sudden loss of her mother, siblings, relatives, due to the Liberian civil war I survived, Dr. Jabbeh Wesley has used writing for more than thirty years as a tool in finding healing not only from her own painful experiences of everyday living, but also from the trauma of political upheavals, war, flight, the loss of home and identity as refugee, erasure, and much more. In this workshop, you will step into your own pain, especially in these historical times of national or global trauma and sudden life changes. This workshop is an empowering experience of finding healing through your own words.

Join us for a workshop by Marc Harshman, Poet Laureate of West Virginia. Marc will bring prose to writers of poetry.

Join us for a poetry reading by Marc Harshman, followed by a discussion with him about his work as a poet, author of fourteen children’s books, and as the Poet Laureate of West Virginia.

Join us for an online writing workshop with George Ella Lyon, former Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

Join us for a poetry reading by George Ella Lyon, former Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

Join us and Ruelaine Stokes, current Lansing Poet Laureate. This workshop will provide writing activities that tap into key moments in your life that made deep impressions on your mind, and prompt you to recall details to give flesh to a poem. We will use both narrative and associative thinking to bring poems to life.

A seed is planted. If the seed finds fertile ground, nourishment, and time to grow, it can start to take shape as a poem. The poet’s job is to keep breathing warmth into the seed until it starts to grow on its own. Ruelaine will read poems that have grown from such seeds and tell the stories of how they grew into poems.

Join us for an online workshop led by Joan Logghe, Poet Laureate of Santa Fe 2010-2012. Together we will explore with brief or life-long focus. Leonard Cohen says, "Waltz me to the end of Love." I say, "write me to the end of Mind." We will generate topics and follow into your Surprise Mind.