We can convince ourselves that we know Midwestern soil, a stream bank, the stillness of a cedar fence post, but Ted Kooser shows otherwise in this collection of eighteen poems,... Read More

What a treasure to have a second how-to book of this caliber enter the world for developing writers. This new handbook is like its predecessor in its most important... Read More

The Poet Laureate of the United States didn’t need to write a poetry handbook. There are dozens of books that, to varying degrees of success, teach developing poets how to... Read More

Poet Ted Kooser’s refreshingly compact meditation on his youth in Eastern Iowa is an essential addition to the growing number of prose autobiographical works by established... Read More