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Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser

Born: 25 April 1939

Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, on April 25, 1939. Kooser is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including Raft (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); Splitting an Order (Copper Canyon Press, 2014); Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon Press, 2004), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005; Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000), which won the 2001 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry; and Weather Central (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994). (Source)

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Poems by Ted Kooser

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A Letter in October by Ted Kooser

October 19, 2016
1. I guess that’s really how it is to love, yeah? I said, just now to a friend. You let go again and again. 2. I extend my arms, my fingers tapping an invisible thread, a bit unresponsive some days. […]
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A Room in the Past by Ted Kooser

November 9, 2011
Two years today. I miss you, Lolo. A Room in the Past Ted Kooser It’s a kitchen. Its curtains fill with a morning light so bright you can’t see beyond its windows into the afternoon. A kitchen falling through time […]
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A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser

March 15, 2011
"I wanted to ride this day down into night, / to sit alone and smooth the unreadable page" — Ted Kooser
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Flying at Night by Ted Kooser

September 16, 2005
"Below us, / some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death," — Ted Kooser