Ted Kooser, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, gave a reading of some of his new poems this evening. It was held in the Parish Hall of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. It was a delightful evening with his telling a bit about the circumstances that led to each poem before its reading. Most of the poems were about people, places and things for which we were already familiar. That gave them an extra measure of enjoyment. My favorite this evening was about his old dog, Alice, who is no longer with him. He told of Alice's ghost waiting at the foot of the ladder as he scraped and painted, and having even taken a picture of his barn, the poem really came to life.
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