The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry

by Ted Kooser (editor)

Genres: Poetry

156 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2024

About the author

Ted Kooser lives in rural Nebraska with his wife, Kathleen, and three dogs. He is one of America's most noted poets, having served two terms as U. S. Poet Laureate and, during the second term, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection, Delights & Shadows. He is a retired life insurance executive who now teaches part-time at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The school board in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently opened Ted Kooser Elementary School, which Ted says is his greatest honor, among many awards and distinctions. He has published twelve collections of poetry and three nonfiction books. Two of the latter are books on writing, The Poetry Home Repair Manual and Writing Brave and Free, and a memoir, Lights on a Ground of Darkness (all from University of Nebraska Press. Bag in the Wind from Candlewick is his first children's book, with which he is delighted. "It's wonderful," Ted said, "to be writing for young people. I am reinventing myself at age 70."

Reviews

[Marcia Claesson]

I liked the poems and other bits of this book. But I would have enjoyed it a lot more if the type had been bigger. And if I owned it. It's the kind of book that you read a few pages at a time. It was due at the library, so I gave it a DNF -- for now.

[Brian Wasserman]

Wow this is a great find. A great collection of pastoral poems, many many great metaphors, most of the poems are not pretentious