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Past
Roethke Readers
(featuring a video
clip of the 2001 Roethke Reading, courtesy Counterbalance Poetry)
UW Arts & Sciences Newsletter article on 40th Anniversary of the Roethke Reading (2003).
Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963) taught at the University of Washington from 1947 until his death in 1963. The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Readings were begun in 1964 to honor his memory by bringing notable contemporary poets to the University of Washington campus to give a reading of their works and, when possible, to meet with students enrolled in the department's advanced poetry writing courses. The annual Roethke Readings, co-sponsored by the Department of English, the University of Washington Graduate School, and the Theodore Roethke Memorial Fund Committee, are normally scheduled on the Thursday in May closest to Roethke's birthday (May 25), and since 1972 have been held in Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane Hall, on the UW campus. They are free and open to the public, and regularly attract large audiences of poetry lovers from around the Pacific Northwest.
Mary Jo Salter earned her B.A. from Harvard (where she studied with Elizabeth Bishop) and her M.A. from Cambridge University. She is a Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the author of seven books: Henry Purcell in Japan (1985), Unfinished Painting (1989), Sunday Skaters (1994), A Kiss in Space (1999), Open Shutters (2003), and A Phone Call to the Future (2008), as well as a children's book, The Moon Comes Home (1989). In addition, Salter is a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and was an editor with The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly.
Brad Leithauser earned both a B.A. and J.D. from Harvard University
and is also a Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
His books include Hundreds of Fireflies (1982), Equal
Distance (1985), Cats of the Temple (1986), Hence (1989), The
Mail from Anywhere (1990), Seaward (1993), Penchants
and Places (1995), The Friends of
Freeland (1997), The Odd Last Thing She Did (1998), A
Few Corrections (2001),
Darlington's Fall (2002),
and Curves and Angles (2006). Leithauser was an editor of
the Norton Book of Ghost Stories and is a regular writer for
the New
York Review of Books.
Select links
Salter information in Borzoi Reader (Knoff)
Salter bio from the Poetry Foundation
Leithauser professional website
Leithauser information in Borzoi Reader (Knoff)
Article announcing the couple's new positions with Johns Hopkins
