Listen to selected Ted Kooser poems read by him at the recent opening of the Library of Congress' 2005-06 literary season. "Barn Owl" is from Weather Central, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

When native Iowan turned Nebraskan Ted Kooser was named U.S. poet laureate in 2004, he was the first poet laureate named from the country’s Great Plains. His poetry was described as modest, ...

RAFT. By Ted Kooser. Copper Canyon Press. 120 pages. $23. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “Delights & Shadows,” former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser concludes an elegy for his mother 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 ...

Jehanne Dubrow’s most recent book is “Dots & Dashes,” from Southern Illinois University Press. Her husband is a naval officer, and she’s written some very fine poetry about military life. Here’s a ...

Around this time of year, for more than 20 years, women around the country have checked their mail and found a postcard bearing a red heart in the corner and a poem: a valentine from Ted Kooser, who ...