Is Valentine's Day for Poets?

February 16, 2008

Ted Kooser thinks so.

Around this time of year, for more than 20 years, women around the country have checked their mail and found a postcard bearing a red heart in the corner and a poem: a valentine from Ted Kooser, who was U.S. poet laureate from 2004 to 2006.

Now, he has collected those poems in a book called Valentines.

Posted by Bill Trippe at February 16, 2008 9:51 AM

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