Mona Van Duyn

Mona Van Duyn (born May 9, 1921, Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.—died December 2, 2004, University City, Missouri) was an American poet noted for her examination of the daily lives of ordinary people and for mixing the prosaic with the unusual, the simple with the sophisticated. She is frequently described as a “domestic poet” who celebrated married love. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her collection Near Changes (1990) and served as U.S. poet laureate (1992–93). Van...