Remarkable People - Theodore Roethke

In this episode of SCCtv's Remarkable People, the life of ONE of the Pacific Northwest's greatest writers, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), is celebrated in this half-hour documentary by award-winning filmmaker Jean Walkinshaw.
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[@kennyglesga]

I love this mad guy's poetry - the greenhouse poet!

[@henrycarlile1143]

I was one of his students, and David Wagoner was my thesis advisor. I was blessed and miss them both.

[@revk-squared9046]

I’ve always loved Theodore

[@PK-re3lu]

This is lovely. I wish the audience for poetry were wider!

[@zriter59escritor33]

Love Roethke's poetry.

[@MrResearcher122]

Read his Villanelle and felt I knew his poetical name before I knew his poetry. His wife looks a lot like my aunt, and this soft portrait of the poet, fighting the cloudy mind, was warm. I heard his surname , sounding like a kind of Consonantal mine, on some the rocky Czech hill , just once. His fine featured wife, half seeing, said it: it sounded American on her tongue.

[@charlesbehlen6225]

Thank you for this lovely documentary. It deserves far more viewers than it has received.

[@tomwheeler691]

Thank you so much. What a beautiful insight into Roethke you’ve given us.

[@musicstewart9744]

This is so interesting to see the poems read in performance by the writer. No standing behind a podium for Mr. Roethke!

[@joelfry4982]

I love Theodore Roethke. Thanks for this.

[@triley934]

Beautiful

[@BUKCOLLECTOR]

Enjoyed the poems and reading.
I’m also a poet but my speciality is Japanese forms i.e. tanka, haiku, haibun, senryu, etc.
I hope you don’t mind me sharing a
I would like to sharing a haiku and tanka poem-the haiku a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my haiku in her top 10 haiku of all time. I am truly honored.
Here is my haiku tribute poem to Bashō,s frog and commentary.
Bashō,s frog
four hundred years
of ripples
- -Al Fogel
“At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and
And kyoka:
returning home
from a Jackson pollock
exhibition
I smear paint on my face and turn into art
-All love in isolation
from Miami Beach,
Florida.
Al

[@PK-re3lu]

Mr Roethke's wife seems absolutely great- a fine woman!

[@tattoofthesun]

Thank you so much for posting this

[@thiagobohn4580]

Thanks

[@readmelancholystrumpetmaster]

Why, oh, why can we never get the production date?

[@littleaxon222]

keep it up you turkeys

[@ultrasound914]

rip bozo

[@skeetskeet5971]

U outta pocket