• Former U.S. Poet Laureate
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
  
  
• One of America's best-selling poets
  
  
• Delights and Shadows is a perennial backlist engine, with lifetime sales approaching 100,000 units
  
  
• founding editor of weekly newspaper column "American Life in Poetry," with total circulation of 3.5 million
  
  
• Proudly one of the most accessible poets writing today, insisting that he never wants a reader to feel stupid
  
  
• Any book of poems from Ted Kooser is cause for celebration

Ted Kooser received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Delights and Shadows, and also served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States. As Poet Laureate, he established a weekly newspaper column, "American Life in Poetry," which is carried in over 150 newspapers, as well as online, and has an estimated circulation of three and a half million readers around the world. Kooser is the author of over twenty books, including five for children. He lives in a small town in Nebraska.