Join us for the final installment of our Considering Craft Series featuring poet Ruelaine Stokes and the Sonnet.

Forest bathing practices help participants slow down, tune in to their senses, and connect with the environment around them. Haiku captures moments of observation or awareness in the natural or human world. What could be a better combination? In this workshop we will tune into our senses through a series of forest bathing “invitations,” and we will learn about the structure of contemporary haiku and practice writing our own haiku.

 Join us for the third installment of our Considering Craft Series featuring poet Leila Chatti and the Abecedarian.

Join us at the Theodore Roethke Home Museum, 1805 Gratiot from 1:00 to 2:00 to hear the River Junction Poets read some of their original work and discuss the influence Roethke had on the region’s longest-standing poetry group. The house is open for tours before and after the reading from 10:00am to 3:30pm.

Join us at the Theodore Roethke Home Museum, 1805 Gratiot in Saginaw for tours of Theodore Roethke’s childhood home. At 1:00, the River Junction Poets will read some of their original work and discuss the influence Roethke had on the region’s longest-standing poetry group.

Join us at SVSU's Whittaker Lecture Theatre (Brown Hall 106). This poetry slam is open to adults, college students and high school students. Prizes will be awarded to the top three winners. Live music and refreshments will round out the evening.

Join us for the second installment of our Considering Craft Series featuring poet Toby Altman and the Sestina.

Join us for the first part of our Considering Craft, featuring Jane Vincent Taylor and the Triolet.

Join us online in the month of March, a month of beginnings and March Madness, to spend four Tuesday evenings working with established poets on four different poetic forms. Hosted by Anita Skeen.

In the final part of this series, we’ll focus on craft and editing followed by group reading: What stays and what goes. How do you make choices in editing?

Part 3 of this series focuses on observation: What details are interesting? How do you lift description from the literal to the metaphoric? Is everything worthy of using in a poem? Writing Ekphrastic poems.

Part two of this series focuses on memory: How do we transform memory into poetry? What makes it universal? Is that important? Does a poem need to be faithful to a memory?     

In this four-part workshop, we will explore how to transform the ordinary elements around us (memories, observation, the external world) into linguistically alive and exciting to read poetry. The series includes three online classes with distinct themes and a concluding hybrid meeting at which participants are invited to share their work with Carol live at the Roethke House or remotely.

A series of five online meetings with Anita Skeen

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!

In this two-part workshop, you will develop and expand your social media marketing platforms to build and retain audiences. The first session will be informative and the second will be hands-on. All levels of experience are welcome.

5-8pm

989-401-6019 for seating and for takeout.

Join Floet and Keairra for an evening of writing and sharing. All skill levels welcome.

In this two-part workshop, you will develop and expand your social media marketing platforms to build and retain audiences. The first session will be informative and the second will be hands-on. All levels of experience are welcome.

Lake Huron Mermaid is a tale of lost sisters, lost amulets, underwater sinkholes and new found love of Big Water, your beloved Lake Huron. Join Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster for a unique presentation, including writing prompts and ideas. This hybrid event takes place at the Roethke House in Saginaw and will be streamed via Zoom.

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.

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.

Please join Jett W. Whitehead at the Roethke House for a jam packed one hour presentation, show and tell, and Q&A.

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.

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.

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.