Theodore Kooser

(1939- ) lives at Garland. Poet, essayist, educator, insurance executive, recipient of 2005 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, has authored or edited 13 books and eight special collections of verse and essays, and his verse has appeared in several national magazines, including The New Yorker, Georgia Review, and Prairie Schooner; recipient of nine honors and awards, including Stanley Kunitz Prize in 1984; selected by U.S. Library of Congress as U.S. poet laureate for 2004-06, one of several who have served more than one term. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, June 26, 1983, pp. 6-7 and Contemporary Poets, 6th ed (St. James Press, 1996) 595-596 and International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, 15th ed (Melrose Press, 1997-98) 355-356 and Sunday World Herald, November 10, 2002, p. AT-7 and Lincoln Journal Star, August 12, 2004, pp. A-1, A-2 and Lincoln Journal Star, January 30, 2005, pp. K-1, K-2 and April 5, 2005, pp. A-1, A-2 and Omaha World Herald, April 9, 2005, pp. E-1, E-2 and May 2, 2005, pp. E-1, E-2.

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