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Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home.
  • Roethke does not write "nice poems," Mike

    Used to be, poetry was essential, even to laid-off workers.

    W.C. Williams:

    It is difficult

    to get the news from poems

    yet men die miserably every day

    for lack

    of what is found there.