Theodore Roethke Home Museum
1805 Gratiot
Saginaw, Michigan, 48723
Please park on side streets and call for reservations.
Contact information: 989-928-0430, 989-837-5579, 989-790-2865
Centennial dessert from Saginaw bakeries
Ten dollar donation suggested for all events.
Theodore Roethke Home Museum will be a summer oral history center gathering Saginaw stories during the life span of Theodore Roethke: 1908 - 1963. Please call for an appointment: 989-928-0430. Your stories will be recorded, transcribed in prose, and merged into poetry to celebrate Saginaw's Pulitzer Prize winning poet in his centennial year. Funded by a grant from Michigan Humanities Council.
Open House at Theodore Roethke Home Museum
Local organizations are welcome to hold their meetings in Pulitzer Prize winning poet's home and have a tour of work in progress by Saginaw's Friends of Theodore Roethke.
Presenter: Roz Berlin
Title of book: The Well of Words by Anges Mathews
Date: Thursday, May 29
Time: Catered lunch will be served at noon
Please call for reservations. Cost $12:00
A daughter will read her mother's poetry and share family stories behind the poems.
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Author: Tom Novak
Title of book: Among the Tin Cans and Broken Glass
Date: Sunday, June 8th
Time: 2:00 P.M.
Novak describes his book as” a work of fiction, based on actual experiences, about a young policeman’s work in 1960’s Detroit, including the 1967 riots. It’s a love story – the story of a man who loved his job”.
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Friends of Theodore Roethke: Annie Ransford
Title: Hemingway and Roethke
Date: Tuesday, June 10th
Time: 7:00 PM
Comparison study of Michigan writers from a paper presented at Society for the Studies of Midwestern Literature. Hemingway and Roethke both danced "My Papa's Waltz".
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Friends of Theodore Roethke Members
Title: Rhythm and Art in Roethke's Children's Poetry
Date: Thursday, June 19th
Time 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Roethke published short and sassy children's poetry. Children of all ages, accompanied by their parents, will learn about Roethke's childhood home, dance to his catchy rhythms, draw their own interpretation of Dirty Dinky, and more.
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Author: Lowell Thomas
Title of book: Silent Heroes
Date: Sunday, June 29th
Time: 2:00 P.M.
Silent Heroes is a “real, and gripping” chronology of Midland County’s veterans of the 20th century’s conflicts – The Russian Bolshevik revolution, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam – which breaks “the silence to tell their grim stories”.
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Friends of Theodore Roethke Members
Title: History of Friends of Theodore Roethke in a Poet's Saginaw Historic House
Date: Tuesday, June 24th
Time: 7:00 PM
House tours given of both historic Roethke homes showing their importance in neighborhood context with a capsule history of Friends of Theodore Roethke: what we've accomplished and what we need to accomplish for sustained community outreach.
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Author: Patty Pinner
Titles: Sweets: A Collection of Soul Food Desserts and Memories and Sweetie Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie
Date: Sunday, July 13th
Time: 2:00 P.M.
Pinner’s books, both much more than simple “cookbooks”, are “a marvelous collection of treats”. They have been called “culinary memoirs” celebrating love between family and recipe givers; Sweets was chosen as one of the ten best cookbooks of 2003 by The New York Times.
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Delta College English Professor and Poet: Jodiann Stevenson
Title: Write to Heal Writing Workshop
Date: Wednesday, July 16th
Time: 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Stevenson will guide participant writing through a difficult and/or important time or event in their lives. Both established writers and newcomers to the craft will find a comfortable space in this workshop. Come ready to write. Leave with new pages and a new perspective.
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Writers: Members of Rustbelt Roethke Writers Workshop
Title: Rustbelt Roethke Saginaw Reading, celebrating our 6th year
Date: Wednesday, July 23
Time: 7 p.m.
Participants in the 2008 Rustbelt Roethke Writers Workshop will read from their work. Rustbelt Roethke Writers Workshop is a week-long writing professional workshop in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. All participants are published authors, and the workshop runs on a peer basis. An anthology of poetry and prose by the participants of the first 5 years of the Workshop, published by Mayapple Press, will be available for sale at the reading. Part of the proceeds of this sale will be donated to Friends of Theodore Roethke.
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Authors: Julie McGowen Brandy Lanae, and Renee Hand will present
A Summer Reading Review
Date: Wednesday, August 6
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Three authors will present their novels for children and adults. Virginia's Voyage by Julie McGowen, is children's historical fiction about an 8- year- old slave child; followed by two adult romance novels, Sapphire Dreams by Brandy Lanae, an Irish fantasy romance, and Seduction of the Lonely Heart by Renee Hand, a romance about forgiveness and winner of national Literary Award in 2007.
Afternoon will include a chocolate fountain and summer fruit.
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Author: David Hall
Titles : The ABC's of Leadership
Date: Tuesday, August 12th
Time: 7:00 pm
David Hall, a retired Brigadier General who has a background in business administration and is the executive in residence in the College of Business and Management at SVSU, will lead a discussion of leadership in the non profit world.
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