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541American literature / Ted Kooser / Poetry Foundation / Poet Laureate

American Life in Poetry: Column 479 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]The Impressionists, on both sides of the Atlantic, gave us a number of handsome paintings of rural scenes, and here’s a poem by the disti

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Language: English - Date: 2014-03-19 16:17:07
542Poetry / Literature / American literature / Ted Kooser / Poetry Foundation / Poet Laureate

American Life in Poetry: Column 417 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]There’s an old country-western song with the refrain, “That’s what happens when two worlds collide,” and in this poem by Bruce Guer

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Language: English - Date: 2013-01-22 15:40:51
543American literature / Literature / Ted Kooser / Poetry Foundation / Poet Laureate

American Life in Poetry: Column 426 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]Laura Dimmit is from Joplin, Missouri, and her family survived the fierce tornado of May, 2011. The entire area was strewn with debris, and

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Language: English - Date: 2013-04-05 16:18:02
544American literature / Literature / Ted Kooser / Poet Laureate / Poetry Foundation

American Life in Poetry: Column 405 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]When we began this column in 2005, I determined not to include any of my own poems because I wanted to introduce our readers to the work of

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Language: English - Date: 2012-11-07 15:22:53
545Poet Laureate / Literature / Poetry / Sherod Santos / Ted Kooser / American literature

American Life in Poetry: Column 454 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]I once wrote a not-so-very-good poem called “Picking Up After the Dead,” about the putting-inorder we feel compelled to do when a famil

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Language: English - Date: 2014-01-31 12:19:04
546American literature / Literature / Ted Kooser / Poetry Foundation / Poet Laureate

American Life in Poetry: Column 421 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]This column originates in Nebraska, and our office is about two hours’ drive from that stretch of the Platte River where thousands of san

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Language: English - Date: 2013-03-08 15:34:37
547American literature / Literature / Spera / Ted Kooser / Poet Laureate

American Life in Poetry: Column 438 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]One of the first things an aspiring writer must learn is to pay attention, to look intently at what is going on. Here’s a good example of

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Language: English - Date: 2013-07-11 11:53:18
548American literature / Literature / Ted Kooser / Poetry Foundation / Poet Laureate

American Life in Poetry: Column 430 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]There are many fine poems in which the poet looks deeply into a photograph and tries to touch the lives caught there. Here’s one by Tami

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Language: English - Date: 2013-05-16 11:58:54
549Literature / Ted Kooser / Poet Laureate / American literature

American Life in Poetry: Column 448 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]I open every spring with a garden more precisely laid out and cared for than the year before, and by the end of summer it’s collapsed int

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Language: English - Date: 2013-08-12 11:45:24
550Poetry / Literature / Ted Kooser / Poet Laureate / American literature

American Life in Poetry: Column 399 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]Our sense of smell is the one sense most likely to transport us through time. A sniff of fried fish on a breeze and I can wind up in my gra

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Language: English - Date: 2012-10-02 15:25:31
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