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Delights & Shadows
The Poetry Home Repair Manual
Winter Morning Walks
Local Wonders
Stateside
Valentines
Flying At Night

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Reflecting 'Stateside' With A Loved One At War

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Reflecting 'Stateside' With A Loved One At War

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Poet Jehanne Dubrow shares several poems from her third poetry collection, Stateside, about her experience as a Navy wife, trying to understand her own life while waiting for her spouse to return from war.

Reflecting 'Stateside' With A Loved One At War

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Ted Kooser Shares the Poetry of Valentine's Day

Since 1986, Ted Kooser has written an annual Valentine's Day poem and sent it to an ever-growing list of women. It's a project the former U.S. poet laureate ended last year. But now, he's collected those poems in a new book, Valentines.

Ted Kooser Shares the Poetry of Valentine's Day

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Ted Kooser, the nation's poet laureate, has been traveling around the country talking to librarians, school children and other groups about poetry. One of his stops was in Kansas City, Mo., where he led a workshop with some of Hallmark's greeting card writers.

Hallmark Writers Get Advice from Poet Laureate

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End-of-Year Reflections from Ted Kooser

As we reach the end of the year, U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser joins host Melissa Block to read a reflection — in prose — on welcoming in a new year, from his book Local Wonders.

End-of-Year Reflections from Ted Kooser

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At Home with Poet Laureate Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser is the nation's poet laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner, but he's the first to agree that writing poems isn't easy. He only wants you to think it is when you read one of his poems.

At Home with Poet Laureate Ted Kooser

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The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners

'American Life' from Its Poet Laureate

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Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's American Life In Poetry is a free weekly column providing a brief poem and description as a way to bring verse to the masses. Monday, Kooser won a Pulitzer Prize.

'American Life' from Its Poet Laureate

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