The Midwest Quarterly articles

Recent articles from The Midwest Quarterly

Ted Kooser.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry PRESCRIPTION: Adore the first sparrow sighted in a new day, for both are quietly spectacular. --David Ray Driving to Garland on a January Morning A gust of wind brushes blackbirds off the...

A tribute to Ted Kooser: an interview with Ted Kooser.(Interview)
June 22, 2005... TMQ: How would you say your parents influenced your becoming a poet? Kooser: My father was a storekeeper, loved the public, and was a marvelous storyteller. I remember a woman once said to me that she'd rather hear my dad describe a person than see the person herself. He had an interest...

Ted's box.(My Father's Tacklebox, Ted Kooser )(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2005... 1976. People were hanging bunting. People were planning bright parades and writing speeches and preparing for the spectacle of the Bicentennial. It was early summer, early June, already scorching and dank with Missouri humidity, the world dripping green. I looked forward with real happiness...

To Ted, from two cow.(Ted Kooser)
June 22, 2005... Sometime near the end of the 1970's, when his wonderfully named Windflower Press was perhaps in its most active period, Ted Kooser sent me one of his famous picture postcards--a copy of an antique print of a westward moving wagon train on one side and on the other a brief announcement in...

The things themselves.(Ted Kooser's poems )
June 22, 2005... Karl Shapiro once defined poetry not as a way of saying things but as a way of seeing them. I thought about this one late February afternoon in 1980 when I first read some of Ted Kooser's poems in a review by Peter Stitt in The Georgia Review. I'd dragged a kitchen chair into the miniscule...