Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006, was the first poet from the Great Plains to hold the position. On this episode of On the Same Page Kooser discusses his book, The Poetry Home Repair Manual, and his Pulitzer Prize winning collection Delights and Shadows.
The Poetry Home Repair Manual is described as a guidebook to making and revising poems, written in the tone of a patient friend who is willing to share everything hes learned about the art hes spent a lifetime creating. Delights and Shadows features Koosers trademark poetry that unites seemingly dissimilar items to illuminate the remarkable within an otherwise ordinary world.
A Presidential Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he is the author of 12 full-length collections of poetry. Following the interview, host Tommy Sanders speaks with panelists Hope Norman Coulter, adjunct professor of English at Hendrix College, and Ben Molini, a Hendrix sophomore.
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