Ted Kooser
An Iowan, Ted Kooser is former vice-president of Lincoln Benefit Life and teaches as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 2004 and the next year received the Pulitzer Prize for Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon). He has also received the James Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah and the Pushcart Prize. He has published a dozen and a half volumes of poems and the widely-used The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for the Beginning Poet. Hi column "American Life in Poetry" is widely syndicated. "Skater" first appeared in Shenandoah 53/3. Skater
She was all in black but for a yellow pony tail that trailed from her cap, and bright blue gloves that she held out wide, the feathery fingers spread, as surely she stepped, click-clack, onto the frozen top of the … Continue reading