Ted Kooser

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Ted Kooser lives in rural Nebraska with his wife, Kathleen, and three dogs. He is one of America's most noted poets, having served two terms as U. S. Poet Laureate and, during the second term, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection, DELIGHTS & SHADOWS. He is a retired life insurance executive who now teaches part-time at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The school board in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently opened Ted Kooser Elementary School, which Ted says is his greatest honor, among many awards and distinctions. He has published twelve collections of poetry and three nonfiction books. Two of the latter are books on writing, THE POETRY HOME REPAIR MANUAL and WRITING BRAVE AND FREE, and a memoir, LIGHTS ON A GROUND OF...more

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Books by Ted Kooser

Average rating: 4.14 · 2,756 ratings · 488 reviews · 33 distinct works

	Delights & Shadows 4.16 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets 4.07 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 4.17 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps 4.35 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison by Ted Kooser, Kooser 4.44 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Valentines 3.97 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser, Jon Klassen (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems 4.15 avg rating — 97 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Weather Central 4.11 avg rating — 79 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Blizzard Voices by Ted Kooser, Tom Pohrt (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 77 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.”
― Ted Kooser

tags: poetry , valentine-s-day

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“When she left me
I stood out in the thunderstorm,
hoping to be destroyed by lightning.
It missed, first left, then right.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

tags: poetry

10 people liked it

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? After all, there’s a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm. While you’re writing your poem, there’s one less scoundrel in the world. And I’d like a world, wouldn’t you, in which people actually took time to think about what they were saying? It would be, I’m certain, a more peaceful, more reasonable place. I don’t think there could ever be too many poets. By writing poetry, even those poems that fail and fail miserably, we honor and affirm life. We say ‘We loved the earth but could not stay.”
― Ted Kooser, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

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