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Book SynopsisMore in Time is a celebration and tribute to two-time United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.
Trade Review"To recognize his [Ted Kooser's] retirement from conducting the beloved personal tutorials he has provided to graduate students at UNL, 68 of his former students, university colleagues and poetic peers have produced
More in Time, a compilation of poems and memories of Kooser's influence upon their lives."—J. Kemper Campbell,
Lincoln Journal Star“Ted Kooser is kind, as we know from every essay and poem published in this volume to honor the poet’s retirement from the University of Nebraska. Ted Kooser is accomplished and beloved as teacher, writer, poet, editor, painter and friend. And Ted Kooser leaves the public life of the university as a national poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner to become what he has always been, a private man of genius. Long may he thrive and publish, labor in his fields, make and paint the birdhouses that adorn our trees, the gorgeous chicken coop in his yard, and write poems so distilled that our souls bend in delight.”—Hilda Raz, author of
Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020 “Ted Kooser’s poems are as natural and true as anything I know in American poetry. I love his honed-down style, his subtle humor, and his attention to a detail that will shine with kindness and grace by the end of the poem.”—Joyce Sutphen, author of
Carrying Water to the Field“When I arrived in the U.S., I experienced an immense culture shock that was incredibly difficult to shake off, and it held me back, held my tongue back in my other classes. But each time I was in Ted’s presence, I grew fully into myself in ways that weren’t so apparent in his absence.”—Saddiq Dzukogi, author of
Your Crib, My Qibla“Ted’s office was a place of magic for me for the few years that I did tutorials with him. . . . He deeply respected the mystery that arose in the course of writing, the surprising element of the poem that a poet might not see herself, until an astute reader pointed it out.”—Katie Schmid, author of
NowhereTable of ContentsEditorial Note Marco Abel, Jessica Poli, and Timothy Schaffert Acknowledgments
Introduction: Splitting an Order, Ted Kooser, Copper Canyon, 2017 Diane Glancy
Naomi Shihab Nye Ted Kooser Is My President Jill McCabe Johnson What Ted Likes
1,001 Things to Amend Before You Die—Excerpt 244–258 Marjorie Saiser Ted Is Writing This Morning Jehanne Dubrow From Description to Discovery
Pledge Mary K. Stillwell A Toast to Chance, Good Fortune, and Ted Kooser Amelia María de la Luz Montes Ted Kooser’s Near South History Tour
Platte River Andrea Hollander The Things Themselves
Old Snow Stephen Behrendt The Surprising Novelty of the Familiar: Ted Kooser’s Poetry Sarah McKinstry-Brown Supper with Amy Mark Sanders A Summer Letter to Old Friends Up North Sharon Chmielarz Aunt Bertha Suzanne Ohlmann Sustenance James Daniels The Crucial Lack of Redemption Sally Green Wildflower Samuel Green Feathering Mark Irwin The smaller house Ivan Young Translating Ted Kooser
Ferris Wheel Dana Gioia Discovering Ted Kooser (1980) Cody Lumpkin Old Man in the Hall of Nebraska Wildlife Christine Stewart-Nuñez My Poetry Foundation
Medical Arts Building, Watertown Robert Hedin Prunings Debra Nystrom Inland Sea Stuart Kestenbaum The Work at Hand Michelle Menting Absorbing the Moment
Ode to the Poster of Reptiles & Amphibians on the Exam Room Wall at the Animal Clinic on South Street Gerald Costanzo Conversing with Ted Kooser for Nearly Fifty Years Barbara Crooker Forsythia Todd Robinson Broken Summer Sonnet Faith Shearin Menagerie Hope Wabuke On Ted Kooser: Poet of Clarity & Sight
Afterwards Katie Schmid The Mechanic
Turning 32 Grace Bauer Summer Morning Walks: 4 Postcards for Ted Kooser Stacey Waite The Politics of Noticing: Ted Kooser in Poetry and Pedagogy James Crews More in Time: A Letter to Ted Trey Moody Good Morning
The Oriole Jessica Poli Holmes Lake Connie Wanek Sign Painter Twyla M. Hansen I Never Thought I’d Outlive My Evergreens Tami Haaland Sewing Room, 1973 Jeffrey Harrison Early Wonderment Peggy Shumaker Ted Talk Sarah A. Chavez Ted Kooser and the Act of Poetry as Life Practice
Home Again Saddiq Dzukogi To See Beyond the Self
Song to a Birdwoman Adrian Koesters “Late Summer”: Doing the Work and Giving the Gift Denise Banker At the Rehabilitation Hospital Biljana D. Obradović Tribute to Ted Kooser: “A Poem Has to Be Something More Than a Good Story”
Elegy for an Eastern Fallen Star Linda Parsons April Wish Mark Vinz Ted Kooser, the Midwest Small Press Poetry Renaissance of the 1960s and ’70s, and a Poem Inspired by Both
Great Plains JC Reilly Bathroom Spiders Freya Manfred When a Place Finds Voice Crystal S. Gibbins Writing toward Home
Lake of the Woods Jonathan Greene One Light to Another Dan Gerber In Praise of Ted Kooser Todd Davis Fishing with Nightcrawlers Hadara Bar-Nadav House Sandra Yanonne A Valentine Sonnet Joyce Sutphen At the Graveyard Rosemary Zumpfe Grace in Poetry
Making Ice Angels Rebecca Macijeski Making Sense, Making a LifeTime’s Beard, His Closest Thing to Seasons Amy Plettner How I Found Ted Maria Nazos Tuesdays with Ted Kooser: How I Found the Heart behind My Collection of Poems, Pulse
The Ghost’s Daughter Speaks Jonis Agee Mercurius Matt Mason Opening Night Rehearsal Judith Harris For Ted, On His Hiatus Karen Head Ready to Hold My Hand: Ted Kooser as Mentor and Friend
At the St. Elizabeth Mammography Center Jane Hirshfield Letter to TK: May 26, 2020 Kwame Dawes The Chronicler of Sorrows
Fences
Source Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
