Ted Kooser

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Ted Kooser’s most recent book is Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air (University of Nebraska Press, 2022). He is a former US Poet Laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He and his wife live on sixty-two acres of rural Nebraska. Photo by Stancey Hancock

  • A digital collage. A photograph of a lake bordered by a rocky ridge that blends into a photograph of a worn-wooden raft.

    Raft

    January 2023
    Ted Kooser
    At the said-to-be bottomless pond at the sand pit, the raft we discovered was a heavy barn door, maybe ten feet by twelve, halfway in, halfway out of the water where others had left it, probabl…

  • Two Poems

    November 2017
    Ted Kooser
    For more, read Daniel Simon’s interview with Ted Kooser, “Starving for Order.”The ConstellationI was on my way home from a party,ten-thirty, a dark winter night, no stars,a few snowflakes driftin…