Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home

Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to wri

"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." -Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?

Ted Kooser sees a writerOCOs workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly

A collection of poems written from the voices of survivors of the January 1888 Nebraska blizzard.