Celebrate National Poetry Month with
Nebraska poet Ted Kooser's
American Life in Poetry.
Sponsored by The Poetry Foundation and the Library of Congress,
the Poet Laureate's new project brings poetry back to American newspapers and to
online publications.
Kooser, who is also the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (for
Delights and Shadows,
has designed the project to provide newspapers and online publications with a free
weekly column featuring contemporary American poems. The sole mission of this project
is to promote poetry: America Life in Poetry seeks to create a vigorous presence for
poetry in our culture. There are no costs for reprinting the columns; but the project
sponsors do require
that users register their publication and that the text of the column be reproduced
without alteration.
The poem in each column is brief and will be enjoyable and enlightening to readers of
newspapers and online publications. Each week, a new column will be posted. Registered
publications will receive new columns by email. Our archive of previous columns is also
available for publication.
For more information about American Life in Poetry, visit the project's web site at
http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/.
To read Kooser's thoughts on the project, see his interview at
Poets & Writers magazine.
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