Spring 2005 • Volume 15, No. 1
A Publication of the Nebraska Center for the Book
Poet Laureate Ted Kooser Awarded Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Board awarded Ted Kooser's Delights and Shadows the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for poetry (Review on page 7). The award recognizes a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author and is accompanied by a prize of $10,000. Ted Kooser, of rural Garland, is one of Nebraska's most highly regarded poets and the country's current Poet Laureate. Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. Ted Kooser is a major poetic voice for rural and small-town America and the first poet laureate chosen from the Great Plains, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington
said. His verse reaches beyond his native region to touch on universal
themes in accessible ways.
Ted is a long-time leader in Nebraska literary efforts and one of the Nebraska Center for the Book's earliest supporters. In 1982, he served as founding president of the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association and he received the Mari Sandoz Award for significant, enduring contribution to the Nebraska book world from the Nebraska Library Association in 2000.
For more information on the Pulitzer Prize see <www.Pulitzer.org>.
Nebraska Wesleyan Hosts 2005 Book Festival
But you can count on this: we are in good hands. Jim Schaffer, NWU English Department chair, is serving as the festival director and has recruited staff from NWU to join the planning committee. They are currently developing the festival activities and program in collaboration with committee members from Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Library Commission, Nebraska Humanities Council, University of Nebraska Press, and members at large. It is a dynamic group and good things are going to happen at the 2005 Nebraska Book Festival, so mark your calendars for October 8. For more information contact Jim Schaffer, 402-423-6224, e-mail: <jrs@nebrwesleyan.edu>
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