This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Ted Kooser, who lives on an acreage near Garland, Nebraska. What would become his writing career began when Ted was in his teens. Today he is known for ...

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America's new poet laureate is Ted Kooser, a retired vice president of Lincoln Benefit Life insurance company in Nebraska, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington will announce today. The ...

Direct from the Great Plains to UC Davis last week came Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, to read some of his works and meet the next day in a seminar setting with ...

Ted Kooser (b. 1939) is an American poet and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2005. One of the first poets from the Great Plains to receive this honor, he is a native of Ames, Iowa, and ...

Ted Kooser, a retired insurance executive, now teaches at the University of Nebraska's Department of English. Oct. 26, Thursday -- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser will give a public reading and ...

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Ted Kooser lives in Garland, Neb., with his wife Kathleen Rutledge. He served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2005. Q: The cover art for ...

There’s something apt about celebrating the anniversary of Ted Hughes’s death with the republication of Lupercal, which includes such Hughes classics as “Pike” and “Hawk Roosting”. Today, more than ...

I’d been writing poems for quite a few years before I understood what my job was to be. I’d published a little poem called “Spring Plowing” in which I imagined a community of field mice moving their ...