Roethke

“In a dark time,” Theodore Roethke wrote, “the eye begins to see.”

“In a dark time,” poet Theodore Roethke wrote, “the eye begins to see.”

This was the place where poet Theodore Roethke, a regular, was said to have celebrated his 1954 Pulitzer.

Local poets share some of their favorite poems by the Holy Trinity of Washington poetry: Richard Hugo, Kizer and Theodore Roethke.

His 1963 song cycle “Poems of Love and the Rain” used the work of Emily Dickinson, Donald Windham, Jack Larson and Theodore Roethke, among others.