Ted Kooser, You're My Hero

As poet laureate, don't you think you should be better acquainted with European poetry?

Think of all the European poetry I could have read if we hadn't spent all this time on this interview.

Finally, Deborah Solomon gets her comeuppance (yeah, I'm late in mentioning it, but Maud jogged my memory). My other favorite bit was Kooser's response to the question of what enrages him: "Hitting my thumb with a hammer or dropping a cement block on my foot."