BOLIVAR, MO – The public is invited to attend a free poetry reading at Southwest Baptist University featuring two-time United States Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Kooser will present a reading of his poetry with a book signing following at 6 p.m. Thursday, September 24 in the Davis-Newport Theater. The theater is located in the Jester Learning and Performance Center at SBU’s Bolivar campus.
A professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Kooser has won numerous awards for his poetry including: the 2005 Pulitizer Prize, two NEA fellowships in poetry, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize, The James Boatwright Prize, and a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council.
Kooser’s work has appeared in several publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Antioch Review.
Many of Kooser’s poems have been used in several textbooks and anthropologies that have been used in upper levels of education.
Kooser’s visit to campus is part of the University’s Barnett-Padgett Literary Artist Series.
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