Showing posts with label Ted Kooser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ted Kooser. Show all posts

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Ted Kooser's "Valentines"

Last night was the "Valentines" event at the Rococo Theater (oh excuse me, I mean Theatre). Man, I love that place. I would apologize for all of my photos being so dark, but I'm not sorry. In fact, we were all thrilled that they kept the lights down low for the event. It was a lovely evening and a good excuse to get dressed up for a change. (click on the images for bigger ones)


In the introduction, Ted says:

I hope you have fun with these poems. I suppose some of them have a little literary merit but, really, they were written with pleasure and meant for the reader's fun. I hope you enjoy the reading half as much as I enjoyed the writing, the licking of stamps, and the addressing to all those women who were willing to tolerate my foolishness.


The books themselves were beautifully designed by UNP's Andrea Shahan.

That's Debra Winger on the left and Ted on the right. Ms. Winger also read a really wonderful excerpt from her forthcoming book, Undiscovered.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Kooser Valentines event

I'm really excited about the Ted Kooser Valentines event this Saturday. I've been lucky enough to receive valentines from Ted since I started working at the University of Nebraska Press in 2000. I love to hear him read and with Debra Winger hosting it should be an interesting evening.

I'm also excited because I'm attending with my pal Cinnamon from A Novel Idea Bookstore (one of my favorite bookstores). Since both of our birthdays are in February we are pretending that the entire event is in our honor.