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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of our country’s finest poets. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. I thought that today you might like to have us offer you a poem full of blessings. The Blessing of the Old… Continue Reading „112. American Life in Poetry: Column 274“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Equipment. I like to paint and draw, and I own enough art supplies to start my own store. And for every hobby there are lots of supplies that seem essential. In this poem we get a whole tackle… Continue Reading „84. American Life in Poetry: Column 273“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Whether we like it or not, we live with the awareness that death is always close at hand, and in this poem by Don Thompson, a Californian, a dead blackbird can’t be pushed out of the awareness of… Continue Reading „36. American Life in Poetry: Column 272“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Barnyard chickens, which are little more than reptiles with feathers, can be counted on to kill those among them who are malformed or diseased, but we humans, advanced animals that we think we are, are far more likely… Continue Reading „153. American Life in Poetry: Column 271“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE We are sometimes amazed by how well the visually impaired navigate the world, but like the rest of us, they have found a way to do what interests them. Here Jan Mordenski of Michigan describes her mother, absorbed… Continue Reading „112. American Life in Poetry: Column 270“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE It is enough for me as a reader that a poem take from life a single moment and hold it up for me to look at. There need not be anything sensational or unusual or peculiar about that… Continue Reading „81. American Life in Poetry: Column 269“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE If writers are both skilled and lucky, they may write something that will carry their words into the future, past the hour of their own deaths. I’d guess all writers hope for this, and the following poem by… Continue Reading „47. American Life in Poetry: Column 268“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a poem by Susan Meyers, of South Carolina, about the most ordinary of activities, washing the dishes, but in this instance remembering this ordinary routine provides an opportunity for speculation about the private pleasures of a lost… Continue Reading „10. American Life in Poetry: Column 267“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The great American poet William Carlos Williams taught us that if a poem can capture a moment in life, and bathe it in the light of the poet’s close attention, and make it feel fresh and new, that’s… Continue Reading „129. American Life in Poetry: Column 266“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Tell a whiny child that she sounds like a broken record, and she’s likely to say, “What’s a record?” Jeff Daniel Marion, a Tennessee poet, tells us not only what 78 rpm records were, but what they meant… Continue Reading „96. American Life in Poetry: Column 265“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Wendy Videlock lives in western Colorado, where a person can stop to study what an owl has left behind without being run over by a taxi. The Owl Beneath her nest, a shrew’s head, a finch’s beak and… Continue Reading „58. American Life in Poetry: Column 264“
Free Column Restores Poetry’s Place in Newspapers CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the fifth anniversary of American Life in Poetry, the weekly newspaper column featuring a poem selected and briefly introduced by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Running regularly… Continue Reading „26. American Life in Poetry Celebrates Fifth Anniversary“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Music lessons, well, maybe 80 out of every 100 of us had them, once, and a few of us went on to play our chosen instruments all our lives. But the rest of us? I still own a… Continue Reading „23. American Life in Poetry: Column 263“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE All over this country, marriage counselors and therapists are right now speaking to couples about unspoken things. In this poem, Andrea Hollander Budy, an Arkansas poet, shows us one of those couples, suffering from things done and undone.… Continue Reading „118. American Life in Poetry: Column 261“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE These days are brim full of bad news about our economy—businesses closing, people losing their houses, their jobs. If there’s any comfort in a situation like this, it’s in the fact that there’s a big community of sufferers.… Continue Reading „110. American Life in Poetry: Column 260“
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