Kooser's "outdoor library" is a place to write, read and nap. When Ted Kooser sits down to write a poem early each morning, he knows that the chances are low that he'll find true inspiration. "I've ...

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 ...

Since 1986, Ted Kooser has written an annual Valentine's Day poem and sent it to an ever-growing list of women. Now, he's collected those poems in... Ted Kooser Shares the Poetry of Valentine's Day ...

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 ...

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 ...

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, ...

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 ...

Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath ...

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 ...

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