Kooser, Ted

Ted Kooser, born in Ames, Iowa in 1939, earned a BS from Iowa State University and an MA from the University of Nebraska. He is currently the Presidential Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has published 12 collections of poetry, and served as the United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. As Poet Laureate, he established "American Life in Poetry," which "provides newspapers and online publications with a free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems" ( www.americanlifeinpoetry.org ).

Visit Ted Kooser's official website to learn more about the author: www.tedkooser.net

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