Ted+Kooser

Super cute picture of Ted Kooser provided by:  "Ted Kooser." //Poetry Foundation//. Poetry Foundation. Web. 25 Jan. 2016.   ==**Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939. He is a professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the //Lincoln Journal Star. //Kooser is widely praised for his plainspoken style, his gift for metaphor, and his quiet discoveries of beauty in ordinary things. **==