| Timeline |
| 1908 |
Born 25 May in Saginaw, Michigan, to Otto and Helen Huebner Roethke |
| 1929 |
Graduates (A.B.) from University of Michigan |
| 1930 |
Attends Harvard Graduate School |
| 1936 |
Receives M.A. from University of Michigan |
| 1941 |
Open House published |
| 1945 |
Wins Guggenheim Fellowship (again in 1950) |
| 1948 |
The Lost Son and Other Poems published |
| 1951 |
Praise to the End! published |
| 1952 |
Awarded Ford Foundation grant (again in 1959) |
| 1953 |
3 January Marries Beatrice O'connell |
| 1953 |
The Waking, Poems published |
| 1954 |
Awarded Pulitzer Prize (for The Waking) |
| 1955 |
Recieves Fulbright grant |
| 1957 |
The Exorcism published |
| 1958 |
Words for the Wind published |
| 1959 |
Wins Bollingen Prize and National Book Award for Words for the Wind |
| 1961 |
I Am! Says the Lamb published |
| 1962 |
Wins Shelly Memorial Award |
| 1963 |
Party at the Zoo and Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical published (posth.) |
| 1963 |
Suffers a stroke and dies while swimming on 1 August in Bainbridge Island, Washington |
| 1964 |
The Far Field published (posth.) |
| 1965 |
On the Poet and His Craft published (posth.) |
| 1965 |
The Far Field wins National Book Award |
| 1966 |
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke published (posth.) |
| 1972 |
Straw for the Fire, From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke published (posth.) |
