Past Roethke readers include a good many Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthur Fellowships, and National Book Awards among their accomplishments. The accompanying pictures are for the most part those submitted at the time by the poets for use in publicity flyers. From 1975 through 1979, Betty Bigelow, a local artist, produced handsome line drawings of the poets, based on their publicity photos, for use in the Roethke Reading announcements.
