The Department of English at John Carroll University presents:

Ted Kooser
13th Poet Laureate of the United States
Thursday, April 17, 2008
7 p.m.

Dolan Center for Science and Technology/Donahue Auditorium
This event is free to attend and open to the public

WHO:             Ted Kooser, 13th Poet Laureate of the United States
                       
                        Ted Kooser is one of Nebraska’s most highly regarded poets and the United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 - 2006.

A professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he is the author of eleven full-length collections of poetry, including “Delights and Shadows” (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) and “Weather Central” (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994).  Over the years, his works have appeared in many periodicals including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Antioch Review. Kooser’s poems are included in textbooks and anthologies used in both secondary schools and college classrooms across the country.

Born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939, Kooser earned a BS at Iowa State University in 1962 and an MA at the University of Nebraska in 1968.  He is a former vice-president of the Lincoln Benefit Life, where he worked as an insurance representative for many years. He lives on an acreage near the town of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge, and dogs, Alice and Howard. He also has a son, Jeff, and a granddaughter, Margaret.

WHAT:           Poetry Reading and discussion with one of the great American poets of our time
                                   
                        This event is sponsored by the Department of English at John Carroll University.

 WHEN:          Thursday, April 17, 2008
                        7 p.m.

WHERE:             John Carroll University
                         20700 N. Park Blvd.
                         University Heights, OH
                         Dolan Center for Science and Technology / Donahue Auditorium

CONTACT:         George Bilgere
                         Professor, English
                         John Carroll University
                         216.397.4746
                         gbilgere@jcu.edu

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