# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-kooser
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:06:34.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-kooser"
name: "Ted Kooser"
slug: "ted-kooser"
description: "Theodore J. Kooser is an American poet. He won 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 was one of the first poets laureate selected from the Great Plains, and is known for his conversational style of poetry."
tagline: "American poet"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-04-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.699858666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tedkooser.net"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1757694"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "تيد كوسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kooser"
    title: "Ted Kooser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kooser"
    title: "Ted Kooser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%93_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%96%D7%A8"
    title: "טד קוזר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kooser"
    title: "Ted Kooser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kooser"
    title: "Ted Kooser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kooser"
    title: "Ted Kooser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/35e1062b-346e-45f8-969a-5b3d977b71db"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140196"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump