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Kay Ryan

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Gender Male
Age 78
Date of birth September 21,1945
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born San Jose
California
United States
Spouse Carol Adair
Job Poet
Author
Educator
Education University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA College of Letters and Science
Antelope Valley College
Awards United States Poet Laureate
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
MacArthur Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Notabl workThe Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2010)
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The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
The Niagara River
Say uncle
Flamingo Watching
Elephant rocks
Erratic Facts
Strangely marked metal
Dragon acts to dragon ends
The Jam Jar Lifeboat and Other Novelties Exposed
Odd Blocks
Doorways Into Dying: Innovative Teachings for End of Life
Poetry at the Edge: Five California Poets
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Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and she won the Pulitzer Prize.

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