{"id":554,"date":"2005-01-24T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/ted-kooser\/"},"modified":"2010-04-03T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T04:28:51","slug":"ted-kooser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poetry\/ted-kooser\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Kooser"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a link, johnny_mango<\/a> brings me back to our new Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.<\/p>\n

A poet for the people<\/a><\/p>\n

In early October, Kooser took over as the “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.” It’s a flexible job. Kooser’s predecessor, Louise Glück<\/a>, made it clear she wasn’t going to be as visible as her predecessor, Billy Collins<\/a>, who had spent his two one-year terms (2001-03) as a roving ambassador for poetry.<\/p>\n

Kooser, though, is taking Collins for his model. That means readings around the country, spreading poetry like gospel. And Kooser doesn’t fly — not because he’s afraid, he says, but because he feels intense discomfort on airplanes. He prefers to drive, which means he’ll log thousands of miles next year.<\/p>\n

[mjh: the full article lurks behind a free subscription login. I used http:\/\/bugmenot.com<\/a> to come up with a valid combination.]<\/p>\n

Poet: Ted Kooser – All poems of Ted Kooser<\/a><\/p>\n

Kooser’s poetry reminds me a bit of Billy Collins. His After Years<\/a> is brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a link, johnny_mango brings me back to our new Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. A poet for the people In early October, Kooser took over as the “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.” It’s a flexible job. Kooser’s predecessor, Louise Glück, made it clear she wasn’t going to be as visible … Continue reading Ted Kooser<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}