Birney Imes: Looking for Ted Kooser
When my brother Frank was paralyzed and laid up in a hospital in California, we took turns sitting with him. While Beth was there, she read to him from a book by Ted Kooser. She had gone in a bookstore in Santa Monica looking for something to read and, as she remembers, the book jumped off the shelf into her hand. She’d never heard of the guy.
Former poet laureate to speak at MSU April 6
A Nobel Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate will read from his works April 6 at Mississippi State University.