"Were it not for the way you taught me to look / at the world, to see the life at play in everything / I would have to be lonely forever."
–Ted Kooser, “Mother,” Delights and Shadows

ATLANTA - This February, Oglethorpe University presents United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser in his first official Atlanta appearance. Kooser, now in his second term as Poet Laureate, was the recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book Delights and Shadows.

Sponsored by Oglethorpe University’s Core Curriculum Program and the Office of the Provost, the event will be held Thursday, February 9, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. in the Conant Performing Arts Center on Oglethorpe’s campus (4484 Peachtree Road, Atlanta). A book signing will follow the poetry reading, which is free and open to the public.

Kooser, a former insurance company executive, is now a visiting professor of English at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He is an award-winning author of 11 full-length collections of poetry and has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.