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 ...

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 ...

America's new poet laureate is Ted Kooser, a retired vice president of Lincoln Benefit Life insurance company in Nebraska, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington will announce today. The ...

Ted Kooser (b. 1939) is an American poet and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2005. One of the first poets from the Great Plains to receive this honor, he is a native of Ames, Iowa, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ted Kooser is the nation's poet laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner, but he's the first to agree that writing poems isn't easy. He only wants you... At Home with Poet Laureate Ted Kooser At Home with ...

Jehanne Dubrow’s most recent book is “Dots & Dashes,” from Southern Illinois University Press. Her husband is a naval officer, and she’s written some very fine poetry about military life. Here’s a ...

This is the sixth poem we’ve published by Peter Everwine, which testifies to how much I admire his writing. How fine it is when a memory arrives from the past to surprise us into happiness. Everwine ...

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 ...

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 ...