Great Regulars: How to Foretell a Change in the Weather

by Ted Kooser

Rain always follows the cattle

from Ted Kooser via Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: How to Foretell a Change in the Weather

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Spring Plowing
by Ted Kooser

West of Omaha the freshly plowed fields

from Ted Kooser via Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Spring Plowing

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Dana Gioia, who served as Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, did a marvelous job of bringing the arts to Americans, arguably the best job that anyone in that position has done. He was a fine poet before he took that job, and he is a fine poet after. Here's an example of his recent work.

Pity the Beautiful

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 371

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