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 ...

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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I’m devoted to yard and garage sales, and I love to spend time with friendly strangers in scuffed front yards and oily, dim garages. Here’s a poem by Matthew Brennan, who lives in Indiana, from his ...

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 ...

Last week we published a poem from Jill Bialosky’s new book “The Players.” (If you didn’t see it, you can find it on our website, www.americanlifeinpoetry.org.) The poet is a New Yorker, an editor at ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...