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American Life in Poetry: Column 243
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Lots of contemporary poems are anecdotal, a brief narration of some event, and what can make them rise above anecdote is when they manage to convey signifi… more →
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American Life in Poetry: Column 243
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ericedits wrote 1 week ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Lots of contemporary poems are anecdotal, a brief narra … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 242
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ericedits wrote 1 week ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 There are lots of poems in which a poet expresses belat … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 241
ericedits wrote 3 weeks ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I love poems in which the central metaphors are fresh a … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 240
ericedits wrote 3 weeks ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 We haven’t shown you many poems in which the poet enter … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 239
ericedits wrote 1 month ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 It’s likely that if you found the original handwritten … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 238
ericedits wrote 1 month ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Though some teacher may have made you think that all po … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 237
ericedits wrote 1 month ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 An aubade is a poem about separation at dawn, but as yo … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 236
ericedits wrote 1 month ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Cecilia Woloch teaches in California, and when she’s no … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 235
ericedits wrote 2 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I tell my writing students that their most important ta … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 234
ericedits wrote 2 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 This week’s poem is by a high school student, Mic … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 233
ericedits wrote 2 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Diane Glancy is one of our country’s Native Ameri … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 232
ericedits wrote 2 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I’ve built many wren houses since my wife and I moved t … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 231
ericedits wrote 3 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 This column originates on the campus of the University … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 230
ericedits wrote 3 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 It’s been sixty-odd years since I was in the elementary … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 229
ericedits wrote 3 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 For over forty years, Mark Vinz, of Moorhead, Minnesota … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 228
ericedits wrote 3 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I don’t often mention literary forms, but of this … more →
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ericedits wrote 3 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Jane Hirshfield, a Californian and one of my favorite p … more →
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ericedits wrote 4 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Elizabeth Bishop, one of our greatest American poets, o … more →
American Life in Poetry: Column 225
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ericedits wrote 4 months ago: BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 There have been many poems written in which a photograp … more →
