Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Poetic Oituaries: During his life he penned five books

of poetry and founded the performance poetry group Al Hellus and the Plastic Haiku Band.

He also was the founder of the Saginaw Drainage Basin Artists Alliance, which in the mid-1990s began sponsoring poetry slam competitions at the Red Eye Coffee House, 205 N. Hamilton, and an annual Rouse for Roethke, a one-day marathon reading of all of native son Theodore Roethke's poems.

from The Saginaw News: Poet's words, actions moving

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