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Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser, the US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006, is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon, 2004), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; and Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (Nebraska, 2002). His latest book, Valentines, was published in February by the University of Nebraska Press.

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Zinc Lid

By Ted Kooser

Fall 2008 | Poetry

It’s the gray of canning season rain,
neither cool nor warm, and mottled
with feeble light.

Dead Fly

By Ted Kooser

Fall 2008 | Poetry

This black sedan lies on its top
on the kitchen window sill, its wheels
in the air, its battery drained,
the oil trickling into the cylinders.

By Starlight

By Ted Kooser

Spring 2008 | Poetry

My neighbors’ dog, shut out of their house
a quarter mile uphill from us, has barked
all night, protesting.

At Dawn

By Ted Kooser

Spring 2008 | Poetry

I watched
a junco
climb a spruce
as if upon
a spiral stair [...]

Window Shade

By Ted Kooser

Spring 2008 | Poetry

In its frame of light it faintly glows,
like a projection screen [...]

A Mouse in a Trap

By Ted Kooser

Spring 2008 | Poetry

A tiny wood raft was afloat
on the cold gray sea
of the cellar floor [...]