Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan

(1945) poet United States

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Kay Ryan (born 1945) was a United States poet, known for The Best of It.

About Kay Ryan

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.

Known for:

The Best of It

Notable works:

The best of it

Awards:

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize|Guggenheim Fellowship|MacArthur Fellows Program|National Humanities Medal|Pulitzer Prize for Poetry|Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

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