American Life in Poetry: Column 307 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I like this poem by 97-year-old Lois Beebe Hayna of Colorado for the way it captures restrained speech. The speaker spends most of her words in describing a season, but behind the changes of spring another significant change is suggested. Brief…
American Life in Poetry: Column 306 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 My grandmother Moser made wonderful cherry pies from fruit from a tree just across the road from her house, and I have loved fruit trees ever since. A cherry tree is all about giving. Here’s a poem by Nathaniel Perry, who…
American Life in Poetry: Column 303 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 There’s something wonderfully sweet about a wife cutting a husband’s hair, and Bruce Guernsey, who lives in Illinois and Maine, captures it beautifully in this poem. For My Wife Cutting My Hair You move around me expertly like the good, round…
American Life in Poetry: Column 300 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 This is our 300th column, and we thank you for continuing to support us. I realized a while back that there have been over 850 moons that have gone through their phases since I arrived on the earth, and I haven’t…
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