Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser (born 25 April 1939) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. Kooser was one of the first poet laureates selected from the Great Plains, and is known for his conversational style of poetry. 2Biography 3Personal life Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, on April 25, 1939. Kooser is the author of twelve collections of poetry. He is former vice-president of Lincoln Bankers Life, an insurance company, and lives on land near the village of Garland, Nebraska. He wrote for an hour and a half before work every morning, and by the time he retired, Kooser had published seven books of poetry. Kooser owned a book publishing company, Windflower. Currently, Kooser teaches as a Presidential Professor in the English department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kooser has lived most of his life in the Midwest, preferring a more rural lifestyle, as he's chosen to live on an acreage in Nebrask