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2000-2001
Stanley Kunitz
Kunitz served as Consultant in Poetry from 1974-76.
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2001-2003
Billy Collins
(1941- ) Collins was born in New York City. He is one of America’s
best-selling poets. His books include “Sailing Alone Around
the Room: New and Selected Poems” in 2001, “Picnic,
Lightning” in 1998, and “The Art of Drowning” in
1995. In October 2004, Collins was the inaugural recipient of the
Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award for humorous poetry.
He has served as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library
and he is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College,
City University of New York, where he has taught for the past 30
years.
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2003-2004
Louise Glück
Glück also served as a Special Bicentennial Consultant in 2000.
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2004-2006
Ted Kooser
(1939- ) Kooser, who was born in Ames, Iowa, received his bachelor's
degree from Iowa State and his master's in English from the University
of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is the author of 10 collections of
poetry, including "Delights & Shadows," which won
the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. His other honors include two National
Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Pushcart Prize and the Stanley
Kunitz Prize from Columbia. He is a professor in the English department
at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln
2006-2007
Donald Hall
(1928- ) Hall, who was born in New Haven, Conn., received his bachelor’s
degree from Harvard College and a bachelor’s in literature
from Oxford University. He has published 15 books of poetry, including
his latest, “White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected
Poems 1946-2006.” He has also written 20 books of prose,
children’s books and plays. He received the National Book
Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for his
poetry book “The One Day” (1988). He lives in New Hampshire.
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2006-2007
Charles Simic
(1938- ) Charles Simic was born in Yugoslavia on May 9, 1938. His
childhood was complicated by the events of World War II. He moved
to Paris with his mother when he was 15; a year later, they joined
his father in New York and then moved to Oak Park, a suburb of
Chicago, where he graduated from the same high school as Ernest
Hemingway. Simic attended the University of Chicago, working nights
in an office at the Chicago Sun Times, but was drafted
into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served until 1963. He earned his
bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966. From 1966
to 1974 he wrote and translated poetry, and he also worked as
an editorial assistant for Aperture, a photography magazine.
He married fashion designer Helen Dubin in 1964. They have two
children. He has been a U.S. citizen since 1971 and lives in Strafford,
N.H.
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