Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editorial Note | Marco Abel, Jessica Poli, and Timothy Schaffert -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Splitting an Order, Ted Kooser, Copper Canyon, 2017 | Diane Glancy -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Ted Kooser Is My President -- Jill McCabe Johnson -- What Ted Likes -- 1,001 Things to Amend Before You Die-Excerpt 244-258 -- Marjorie Saiser -- Ted Is Writing This Morning -- Jehanne Dubrow -- From Description to Discovery -- Pledge -- Mary K. Stillwell -- A Toast to Chance, Good Fortune, and Ted Kooser -- Amelia María de la Luz Montes
Ted Kooser's Near South History Tour -- Platte River -- Andrea Hollander -- The Things Themselves -- Old Snow -- Stephen Behrendt -- The Surprising Novelty of the Familiar: Ted Kooser's Poetry -- Sarah McKinstry-Brown -- Supper with Amy -- Mark Sanders -- A Summer Letter to Old Friends Up North -- Sharon Chmielarz -- Aunt Bertha -- Suzanne Ohlmann -- Sustenance -- James Daniels -- The Crucial Lack of Redemption -- Sally Green -- Wildflower -- Samuel Green -- Feathering -- Mark Irwin -- The smaller house -- Ivan Young -- Translating Ted Kooser -- Ferris Wheel -- Dana Gioia
Discovering Ted Kooser (1980) -- Cody Lumpkin -- Old Man in the Hall of Nebraska Wildlife -- Christine Stewart-Nuñez -- My Poetry Foundation -- Medical Arts Building, Watertown -- Robert Hedin -- Prunings -- Debra Nystrom -- Inland Sea -- Stuart Kestenbaum -- The Work at Hand -- Michelle Menting -- Absorbing the Moment -- Ode to the Poster of Reptiles & Amphibians on the Exam Room Wall at the Animal Clinic on South Street -- Gerald Costanzo -- Conversing with Ted Kooser for Nearly Fifty Years -- Barbara Crooker -- Forsythia -- Todd Robinson -- Broken Summer Sonnet -- Faith Shearin -- Menagerie
Hope Wabuke -- On Ted Kooser: Poet of Clarity & Sight -- Afterwards -- Katie Schmid -- The Mechanic -- Turning 32 -- Grace Bauer -- Summer Morning Walks: 4 Postcards for Ted Kooser -- Stacey Waite -- The Politics of Noticing: Ted Kooser in Poetry and Pedagogy -- James Crews -- More in Time: A Letter to Ted -- Trey Moody -- Good Morning -- The Oriole -- Jessica Poli -- Holmes Lake -- Connie Wanek -- Sign Painter -- Twyla M. Hansen -- I Never Thought I'd Outlive My Evergreens -- Tami Haaland -- Sewing Room, 1973 -- Jeffrey Harrison -- Early Wonderment -- Peggy Shumaker -- Ted Talk
Sarah A. Chavez -- Ted Kooser and the Act of Poetry as Life Practice -- Home Again -- Saddiq Dzukogi -- To See Beyond the Self -- Song to a Birdwoman -- Adrian Koesters -- "Late Summer": Doing the Work and Giving the Gift -- Denise Banker -- At the Rehabilitation Hospital -- Biljana D. Obradović -- Tribute to Ted Kooser: "A Poem Has to Be Something More Than a Good Story" -- Elegy for an Eastern Fallen Star -- Linda Parsons -- April Wish -- Mark Vinz -- Ted Kooser, the Midwest Small Press Poetry Renaissance of the 1960s and '70s, and a Poem Inspired by Both -- Great Plains -- JC Reilly
