Theodore J. Kooser is a poet, known for his conversational style of poetry.Kooser received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.Kooser is Presidential Professor Emeritus at The University of Nebraska, where he taught Poetry.Kooser's poems have appeared in literary periodicals and been collected in a number of full-length volumes and anthologies. His first book, the collection "Official Entry Blank," was published in 1969. For fifteen years, he edited a weekly syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.”