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Ted Kooser is born in Ames, Iowa on April, 25 1939
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ted kooser graduated from Ames High School in 1957
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ted kooser graduates from Iowa State University with a Bachelor in Arts Degree in English and Speech
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ted kooser gets his Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Nebraska
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Ted Kooser starts working at the Lincoln Benefit Life Company. He starts writing poems.
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Ted Kooser wins the Stanley Kunitz Prize from Shenandoah.
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Ted Kooser retires from the Lincoln Benefit Life Company as vice president.
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Ted Kooser is selected by the Library Of Congress to become the 13th Poet Laureate of the U.S. He will serve two terms.
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One of Ted Kooser's poetry collections, Delights And Shadows, is chosen for the Pulitzer Prize. Earler that week, he had become the 13th U.S. Poet Laureate.
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Ted Kooser's second and final term as Poet Laureate. He will go back to his farm home in Garland, Nebraska.
