Opened in August 2009, Ted Kooser Elementary is the newest LPS Elementary School. It sits on approximately 15 acres of land which includes a small Lincoln Parks and Recreation site.
Ted Kooser (b. 1939) is an American poet who was the thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States, serving two terms from 2004 to 2006. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry, receiving the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book “Delights and Shadows” (2004). Kooser has won two NEA Literary Fellowships (in 1976 and 1984), the Pushcart Prize, the Nebraska Book Awards for Poetry (2001) and Nonfiction (2004), the Stanley Kunitz Prize (1984), the James Boatwright Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2005).
He is former vice-president of Lincoln Benefit Life, an insurance company, and lives near the village of Garland, Nebraska.
