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"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." -Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?...
For Valentine?s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote ?Pocket Poem? and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradit...
From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser and award-winning illustrator, Jon Klassen, comes a poignant tale of loss, change, and nature's quiet triu...
New and Selected Poems
The publication of Ted Kooser's Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems is a literary event of major importance. Long admired and praised by other poets, K...
Delightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to life’s shared experiences and emotions—...
Poems 1965-1985
Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has...
Poems Dipped Out of the Air
"The poems in Cotton Candy were written during Ted Kooser's daily routine of getting up long before dawn and writing down whatever drifts into his min...
A Poet's Field Book
Ted Kooser sees a writerOCOs workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because tho...
A collection of poems written from the voices of survivors of the January 1888 Nebraska blizzard....
Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
Provides instructions on writing and revising poems....
Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the r...
An Evocation of a Place and Time
A tribute to the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate's Iowa family is an evocative collection of tales that center around his beloved uncle El...
Ted Kooser’s third book in the Pitt Poetry Series is a selection of poems published in literary journals over a ten year period by a writer whose wo...
Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
In the "quietest magnificent book IUve ever read" (Jim Harrison, author of "Legends of the Fall") Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor...
One of the "Big Indie Books of Fall 2014"—Publishers Weekly "Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines a...
New and Selected
“Kooser . . . must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple.” —Michael Dirda, The Washingto...
Joyce Sutphen’s evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and traveling and searching for balance in a very modern world ...
Kooser describes with exquisite detail, humour, and savvy the place he calls home in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska...
Selected Works at Kranzberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO July 31 - Sept 1, 2019
About the Exhibit: This is a collaborative print exhibit with visual artist, Byron Sletten and Pulitzer Prize winning US Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Th...
A Conversation in Poetry: Expanded Anniversary Edition
In her loving Foreword to this expanded anniversary edition, Naomi Shihab Nye writes “Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry is one of the dearest,...
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In a singular first children’s book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a s...
Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech
"A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is abo...
One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison
A collection of poetry by Ted Kooser....
New and Previous Poems
Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parable...
Poems
Encouraging Words for People who Want to Start Writing
Sometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the b...
Is the sound Charlie hears from the bridge an echo, or is someone else out there? A lyrical, resonant story by poet Ted Kooser, splendidly illustrated...
fourteen poems hand set letterpress limited editions, deluxe edition on handmade papers...
Poems portray nature, the past, death, memories, the night, space exploration, the poor, city life, and health....
In a charming tale of an elderly man and his obliging young friend, former poet laureate Ted Kooser and newcomer Daniel Duncan invite us to look at th...
One day Charlie notices that when he strikes the bridge near his grandparents' house with a big rock, a sound like a church bell echoes into the valle...
So this is Nebraska
Poems, Selected and New
Four decades of poetry―and a generous selection of new work―make up this extraordinary collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. Firmly root...
Twenty-One Years of Valentines, 1986-2006
Since 1986, U.S. Poet Laureate Kooser has been composing a poem to mark February 14th and sending it to a mailing list of women that now includes seve...
An Evocation of a Time and Place
The story of Ted Kooser's mother's family....