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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Out of great suffering comes beauty

Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home.
By Garrison Keillor

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  • Wednesday, February 13, 2008 04:24 PM

    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.

    —prytania Read prytania's other letters

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