Remarkable People - Theodore Roethke

[@henrycarlile1143]

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

[@kennyglesga]

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

[@revk-squared9046]

I’ve always loved Theodore

[@zriter59escritor33]

Love Roethke's poetry.

[@PK-re3lu]

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

[@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.

[@joelfry4982]

I love Theodore Roethke. Thanks for this.

[@charlesbehlen6225]

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

[@musicstewart9744]

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

[@tomwheeler691]

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

[@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

[@triley934]

Beautiful

[@PK-re3lu]

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

[@thiagobohn4580]

Thanks

[@tattoofthesun]

Thank you so much for posting this

[@readmelancholystrumpetmaster]

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

[@littleaxon222]

keep it up you turkeys

[@ultrasound914]

rip bozo

[@skeetskeet5971]

U outta pocket