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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My boyhood home in Iowa was surrounded by honeysuckle bushes that my father sprayed with the hose on summer evenings, and we’d open the windows and have ’40s air conditioning, a cool damp breeze. Here ...

The poet Ted Kooser turned 85 this year, and the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate of the United States is as productive as ever, with Copper Canyon Press putting out his latest volume, ...

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 ...

I love this short poem, which collects a fried chicken bucket of all too many dreary details and dresses them out in graceful formal rhyme. It’s by Matthew Buckley Smith, who lives in North Carolina, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...