Dates

• Existence: 1915 - 2000

Biography

From 1950 through 1972, Margaret Rorke (1915-2000) wrote poetry that was regularly published on the editorial pages of The Saginaw News (2,824 different poems in all). From 1975 through 1990, approximately 400 of her poems were featured in Judd Arnett’s column in the Detroit Free Press. Her poetry appeared as well in many periodicals and anthologies, including The Reader’s Digest, Guideposts, Better Homes and Gardens, Ideals, The P.E.O. Record, and The Sample Case. Some of these poems were gathered by the poet into three sizable books: My Ego Trip (1976), An Old Cracked Cup (1980), and Christmas Could-Be Tales (And Other Verses) (1984). She received the John J. Hensel Award of the Michigan State Bar Association (1987) for being an “attorney who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts or literature.”

Posthumously, Margaret Rorke was inducted into the Saginaw Hall of Fame in 2007.

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