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The government has released a postal stamp honoring the poet's legacy.

These stairs are featured in Roethke's much celebrated poem, My Papa's Waltz.

Ted and Beatrice, his wife. Beatrice is in her nineties now and lives in England.

A photograph of Roethke children in front of the greenhouse.

Included here is the first part part of the poem. Other parts of the poem to be included later pending copyright permission.

Located at 1805 Gratiot Ave, Saginaw, MI 48602, this modest house in which Roethke grew up, has been the setting of many his celebrated poems including My Papa's Waltz. The house is now a historic site and a museum.

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet who was born and raised in Saginaw, a small town located in central Michigan. His father owned a house, a floral company, and extensive greenhouses where the poet spent his…