Ted Kooser is a two-time US Poet Laureate and the author of numerous poetry collections, including Raft (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Delights & Shadows, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Splitting an Order; Kindest Regards; and Cotton Candy. As Poet Laureate he created “American Life in Poetry,” a free weekly column for newspapers, featuring a poem by a contemporary American writer. Born in Ames, Iowa, Kooser is a former vice president of Lincoln Benefit Life, where he worked as an insurance representative for many years. He is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Photograph by Matt Valentine.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Free Tower, poetry, in Fall 2024
- A Turning of the Stairs, poetry, in Spring 2023
- Mirroring Windows, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2022–2023
- Exercise, poetry, in Winter 2024
- People We Will Never See Again, poetry, in Winter 2019
- Waxer, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2018–2019
- December Morning, an ipoem, in Fall 2018
- Death of a Dog and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2018
- Memorial Day, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2017–2018
- Bruegel-Hunters in the Snow and Other Poems, poetry, in Spring 2018
- Meteor Shower and Other Poems, poetry, in Spring 2016
- Changing Drivers, poetry, in Winter 2014
- A Happy Birthday, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2013–2014
- Gyroscope, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
- Biker, an ipoem, in Spring 2011
- Starlight, an ipoem, in Spring 2010
- An Old Sidewalk, poetry, in Fall 2007