Ted Kooser is the 13th United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006), a retired life insurance executive who lives on acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge. He has an appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Nebraska, where he teaches classes in poetry and nonfiction writing. His collection Delights & Shadows was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review and dozens of other literary journals. His memoir, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, a Barnes & Noble Discover finalist in nonfiction, also won the 2002 Friends of American Writers Award and ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal recognition for autobiographical writing. He is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, nine chapbooks and special editions, and Braided Creek, a collaboration with Jim Harrison, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2003. His newest collection, Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2018.

Other poems by Ted Kooser in Verse Daily:
January 26, 2015:   "Dead Bat" "When I slid out my heavy thrift-store..."
June 21, 2009:   "The Child and the Parent" "A bird's cry cracks  The child has torn off the front of the parent...."
March 21, 2005:  "First Snow," "Spring Plowing," and "Porch Swing in September" ""The old black dog comes in one evening..."
January 31, 2005:  "Heat Lightning" "At the horizon, July in heavy boots..."
December 15, 2004:  "Nestling Robins" "In the crabapple tree by the side porch..."
May 25, 2004:  "Student" "The green shell of his backpack makes him lean..."
May 10, 2004:  "Walking on Tiptoe" "Long ago we quit lifting our heels..."
April 20, 2003:  "While my bowl is still half full..." (with Jim Harrison) "you can eat out of it too..."
July 29, 2002:  "Coyotes" "My pup steps to the edge / of the light..."

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