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Schlagwort: Ted Kooser
54. American Life in Poetry: Column 503
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE As a writer and reader, there’s hardly anything I enjoy more than coming upon fresh new ways of describing things, and here’s a sparkling way of looking at an avalanche, by Marty Walsh, who lives in Maine. The… Continue Reading „54. American Life in Poetry: Column 503“
35. American Life in Poetry: Column 502
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Many poets have attempted to describe the way in which flocks of birds fly, as if they were steered by a single consciousness. In the following poem, David Allan Evans gives us a new metaphor for the way… Continue Reading „35. American Life in Poetry: Column 502“
9. American Life in Poetry: Column 501
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I love a good ghost story, and here’s one about a ghost cat, by John Philip Johnson, who lives in Nebraska, where most ghosts live in the wind and are heard in the upper branches of cedar trees… Continue Reading „9. American Life in Poetry: Column 501“
1. American Life in Poetry: Column 500
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE This is our 500th weekly column, and we want to thank the newspapers who publish us, the poets who are so generous with their work, our sponsors The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln… Continue Reading „1. American Life in Poetry: Column 500“
92. American Life in Poetry – 500 Gedichte in 19 Jahren
Im März 2005 berichtete die Lyrikzeitung unter #65: U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser hat auch einen Plan. Diesen Monat startet sein American Life in Poetry Project. Es bietet lokalen Zeitungen eine freie Kolumne mit einem Gedicht eines heutigen amerikanischen Dichters, eingeleitet von Ted Kooser.… Continue Reading „92. American Life in Poetry – 500 Gedichte in 19 Jahren“
66. American Life in Poetry: Column 499
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE To celebrate my 75th year, I’ve published a new book of poems, and many of them are about the way in which we come together to help each other through the world. Here’s just one: Two On a… Continue Reading „66. American Life in Poetry: Column 499“
61. American Life in Poetry: Column 498
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a lovely poem for this lovely month, by Robert Haight, who lives in Michigan. Early October Snow It will not stay. But this morning we wake to pale muslin stretched across the grass. The pumpkins, still in… Continue Reading „61. American Life in Poetry: Column 498“
1. American Life in Poetry: Column 497
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I’d guess everybody reading this has felt the guilt of getting rid of belongings that meant more to somebody else than they did to you. Here’s a poem by Jennifer Maier, who lives in Seattle. Don’t call her… Continue Reading „1. American Life in Poetry: Column 497“
100. American Life in Poetry: Column 496
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE One of Grant Wood’s earliest paintings is of a pair of old shoes, and it hangs in the art museum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where Wood grew up. Here’s a different kind of still life, in words, from… Continue Reading „100. American Life in Poetry: Column 496“
95. American Life in Poetry: Column 495
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE We’re at the end of the gardening season here on the Great Plains, and the garden described in this poem by Karina Borowicz, who lives in Massachusetts, is familiar to tomato fanciers all across the country. September Tomatoes… Continue Reading „95. American Life in Poetry: Column 495“
49. American Life in Poetry: Column 494
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I’d guess that a number of our readers have had MRIs. One of my neighbors, a gravel hauler in rural Nebraska, told me that his test sounded as if he were on the inside of a corn sheller.… Continue Reading „49. American Life in Poetry: Column 494“
29. American Life in Poetry: Column 493
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Stories read to us as children can stay with us all our lives. Robert McCloskey’s Lentil was especially influential for me, and other books have helped to shape you. Here’s Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, with a… Continue Reading „29. American Life in Poetry: Column 493“
7. American Life in Poetry: Column 492
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Faith Shearin’s poetry is conversational while moving gracefully and almost effortlessly toward conclusions that really have some punch to them. This one is a good example of that. Shearin lives in Maryland. Music at My Mother’s Funeral During… Continue Reading „7. American Life in Poetry: Column 492“
87. American Life in Poetry: Column 491
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a fine poem by Heather Allen, a Connecticut poet who pays close attention to what’s right under her feet. It may seem ordinary, but it isn’t. Grasses So still at heart, They respond like water To the… Continue Reading „87. American Life in Poetry: Column 491“
57. American Life in Poetry: Column 491
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a fine poem by Heather Allen, a Connecticut poet who pays close attention to what’s right under her feet. It may seem ordinary, but it isn’t. Grasses So still at heart, They respond like water To the… Continue Reading „57. American Life in Poetry: Column 491“
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