Ted Kooser

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets is a book by Ted Kooser.

For Valentine’s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote “Pocket Poem” and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,500 women …