Please join us for writer Edward Morin's talk on Theodore Roethke's poem "The Rose" and nature mysticism. Morin is author of four poetry collections including Labor Day at Walden Pond (1997) and The Bold News of Birdcalls (2021). His cotranslations of Chinese and Arabic poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Banipal, and his anthology The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution (1990). As editor of the Poetry Society of Michigan's journal, Peninsula Poets, he coedited Water Music: The Great Lakes State Poetry Anthology (2016).
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.
About Speaker
Edward Morin is author of four poetry collections including Labor Day at Walden Pond (1997) and The Bold News of Birdcalls (2021). His cotranslations of Chinese and Arabic poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Banipal, and his anthology The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution (1990). As editor of the Poetry Society of Michigan's journal, Peninsula Poets, he coedited Water Music: The Great Lakes State Poetry Anthology (2016).