1. BILLY COLLINS Billy Collins, the US Poet Laureate read the press release Get your poems here. Want Billy at your event? Billy Collins Can you believe it? http://www.bigsnap.com/billy.html

Billy Collins, the US Poet Laureate read the press release Get your poems here. Want Billy at your event? Billy Collins: Can you believe it? He's the Poet Laureate. ( read the press release ) There must be some sanity in this world. But that's not all: best-selling books . An underground CD . Featured on NPR's Prairie Home Companion and Fresh Air. Spotted speaking to Congress and seen on the front page of the Sunday New York Times. Gee willikers. What will he do next? Chances are you might find him somewhere near you. Check your local sources for more information. And in the meantime, learn more about our favorite poet. Big Snap online exclusive: Read and listen to selected poems from THE BEST CIGARETTE (CD Audiobook). Also, complete text for all poems heard on Prairie Home Companion Get your poem fix here! What's the latest? What's up with Billy? WEll, he's been recently named the official US Poet Laureate, after being named the April 2000 featured poet in Poetry Magazine .Psst. Here's a little secret. You can book Billy for your event. Get in contact with the Stephen Barclay Agency for more information.

2. Billy Collins - The Academy Of American Poets The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/poets/bcollins

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Billy Collins Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Nine Horses (Random House, 2002); Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems Picnic, Lightning The Art of Drowning (1995), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Questions About Angels (1991), which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the National Poetry Series; The Apple That Astonished Paris Video Poems (1980); and Pokerface (1977). A recording of Collins reading thirty-three of his poems, The Best Cigarette , was released in 1997. Collins's poetry has appeared in anthologies, textbooks, and a variety of periodicals, including Poetry American Poetry Review American Scholar Harper's Paris Review , and The New Yorker . His work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize anthology and The Best American Poetry for 1992, 1993, and 1997. Collins has edited Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003), an anthology of contemporary poems for use in schools. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1992, he was chosen by the New York Public Library to serve as "Literary Lion" and in 2001 he served as the U.S. Poet Laureate. For several years he has conducted summer poetry workshops in Ireland at University College Galway. He is a professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York. He lives in Somers, New York.

3. Billy Collins - Billy Collins Poet Seers spiritual poets from the East and the West Billy Collins - Billy Collins. Billy Collins. Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. http://www.vasudevaserver.com/home/sites/poetseers.org/html/poet_laureates/bcoll

Home Poet Laureates Billy Collins Site Map Poet Laureates Billy Collins Japan Reading an anthology On Turning Ten Workshop ... Poem of the Day Archive Billy Collins Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review , and The American Scholar , he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library "Literary Lion." His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. His readings are usually SRO, and his audience - enlarged tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio - includes people of all backgrounds and age groups. The poems themselves best explain this phenomenon. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn; poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as "a form of travel writing" and considers humor "a door into the serious." It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight. Billy Collins writes lovely poems . . . Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

4. Billy Collins Billy Collins. The Art of Poetry LXXXIII. Interviewed by George Plimpton. Issue 159 Fall, 2001. BILLY COLLINS. I d like to get something http://www.parisreview.com/tpr159/collins.htm

Billy Collins The Art of Poetry LXXXIII Interviewed by George Plimpton Issue 159 Fall, 2001 Current Issue Interviews Paul Muldoon Richard Howard Features Dylan Thomas Lee Friedlander Poetry David Baker Fred Dings Phillip Sterling Betsy Bonner ... Sarah Manguso From the Archives Interviews Isak Dinesen Henry Miller Poetry James Cummins Frank Dux Patricia Ferrell Serena J. Fox BILLY COLLINS I'd like to get something straightened out at the beginning: I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door. INTERVIEWER Well, that's certainly the kind of information we're after, but can you tell us about the actual making of what you send out? Could you go through the genesis of a poem? COLLINS There's a lot of waiting around until something happens. Some poets like David Lehman and William Stafford set out on these very willful programs to write a poem a day. They're extending what Catullus said about "never a day without a line." But most poets don't write a poem a day. For me it's a very sporadic activity. Until recently, I thought "occasional poetry" meant that you wrote only occasionally. So there's a lot of waiting, and there's a kind of vigilance involved. I

5. Powells.com Interviews - Billy Collins Billy Collins, Bringing Poetry to the Public Dave Weich, Powells.com Imagine a concert hall filled (sold out, twentyseven hundred seats) by people who paid http://www.powells.com/authors/collins.html

Rare Books Technical Books Kids' Books eBooks ... Simon Winchester Find Books Award Winners Book Clubs Great Deals Harry Potter ... Staff Picks Read the City Author Interviews From the Author Fup. Store Cat. Other Voices ... Writer's Almanac Win Free Books! Daily Dose The Provoking Scissors Cannot Be Opened. PowellsBooks.news May 18, 2004 Archived Editions More newsletters American Rivers ... see all sections... Billy Collins, Bringing Poetry to the Public Dave Weich , Powells.com Reader-friendly hospitable congenial welcoming ... These are some of the words often used to describe Collins's work. Such attributes surely help explain his popular following. Among other vaguely heretical beliefs, America's former Poet Laureate insists that a poem should give pleasure on its first reading. Still, it's easy (and patently unfair) to make too much of how accessible Billy Collins's artful verse can be when in fact his seductive, hilarious, surprising, and expansive work appeals to the literary establishment, as well. "Billy Collins writes lovely poems," John Updike raves, "lovely in a way almost nobody's since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."

6. Nine Horses: Poems Billy Collins Title Nine Horses Poems collins billy Billy Collins Subject American General Category Poetry Drama Criticism Poetry World American General Format http://www.totalpicture.co.uk/Billy-Collins-Nine-Horses-Poems-965-672-119-2.html

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7. NYRB: Billy Collins Billy Collins. Billy Collins is the author of five books of poetry, including Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room New and http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/9107

NYRB home About NYRB Authors Browse ... Special offers Billy Collins Billy Collins is the author of five books of poetry, including Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems, The Art of Drowning, The Apple That Astonished Paris, and Questions About Angels . He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, Harper's, and The Atlantic Monthly , among other publications. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is the winner of numerous awards. In 1992, he was chosen by the New York Public Library to serve as "Literary Lion," and is currently serving as the 2001-2003 Poet Laureate of the United States. A Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY), Collins lives with his wife, Diane, in northern Westchester County, New York. The Stuffed Owl There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefly good Bad Verse.

8. Billy Collins - The Academy Of American Poets billy collins The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. billy collins. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=284

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Speaker Pull Down Menu Russell Banks A. S. Byatt Michael Chabon Billy Collins Bernard Cooper Robert Creeley Michael Cunningham Anne Fadiman Jonathan Franzen Ira Glass Terry Gross Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Jane Hirshfield Tony Kushner Anne Lamott Barry Lopez Armistead Maupin Frances Mayes W.S. Merwin Anchee Min Kathleen Norris Naomi Shihab Nye Michael Ondaatje Robert Pinsky David Rakoff Adrienne Rich Frank Rich Luis Rodriguez Mark Salzman Robert Sapolsky Orville Schell Alice Sebold David Sedaris Maurice Sendak Art Spiegelman Amy Tan Sarah Vowell Terry Tempest Williams Photo by Juliet van Otteren Links of Interest POETRY 180 US Poet Laureate Poetry by BC Review on BC ... Emily Dickinson film Billy Collins United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins has published seven collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels The Art of Drowning Picnic, Lightning , and Nine Horses . In the book he edited, Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry , Collins beckons readers to return to poetry with an anthology of poems that exposes the richness and diversity of the form. His work has also appeared in

11. Poetry Magazine Text of the author's poem Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty,I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles. http://www.poetrymagazine.org/featured_poet_060199.html

CURRENT ISSUE POETRY Magazine THIS WEEK'S FEATURED POET BILLY COLLINS Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles It seems these poets have nothing up their ample sleeves they turn over so many cards so early, telling us before the first line whether it is wet or dry, night or day, the season the man is standing in, even how much he has had to drink. Maybe it is autumn and he is looking at a sparrow. Maybe it is snowing on a town with a beautiful name. "Viewing Peonies at the Temple of Good Fortune on a Cloudy Afternoon" is one of Sun Tung Po's. "Dipping Water from the River and Simmering Tea" is another one, or just "On a Boat, Awake at Night." And Lu Yu takes the simple rice cake with "In a Boat on a Summer Evening I Heard the Cry of a Waterbird. It Was Very Sad and Seemed To Be Saying My Woman Is CruelMoved, I Wrote This Poem." There is no iron turnstile to push against here as with headings like "Vortex on a String,"

12. Lit Controversy : Billy Collins Thread regarding American poet laureate billy collins and his work. http://www.beilharz.com/controversy/collins.html

Lit Controversy : Billy Collins This is a thread originally started elsewhere on the Internet regarding U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins and, more specifically, his collection Picnic, Lightning (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1998). None of the opinions expressed here necessarily reflect or coincide with my own views. New additions to the thread are welcome (see link below); their posting is subject to good taste and relevance. I am unable to assume any liability whatsoever regarding the authenticity of the names and e-mail addresses stated by the participants in the thread. J.B. Start of thread (July 23, 2003) Polemic Rave about America’s Poet Laureate Just read some of Billy Collins. The guy is so pleasant and easy it’s no wonder he became America’s poet laureate. Jesus Christ, what a thing to have in a country of 250 million of which probably less than a million ever touch shit like poetry . But you’ve got to have one who does it best, like The President or Michael Jordan. One who hits the popular jugular with a vengeance because he thrives, absolutely thrives on one thing: accepted mediocrity hanging on to the underbelly of poetry just enough to give you that slightly elevated feel that, as we all know, should come with

13. Billy Collins, Poetry In Audio Issue Seven - The Cortland Review Poetry of billy collins in real audio Issue Seven (May 1999) - The Cortland Review May 1999. billy collins. THE CORTLAND REVIEW billy collins'several publications include Picnic, Lightning http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/7/collinsb7.htm

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var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "angelfire.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" page8 Poetry Poets Some good poems My poetry Good poetry sites when i heard the learn'd astronomer when the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me when i was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them when i sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room how soon unaccountable i became tired and sick till rising and gliding out i wander'd off by myself in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. Whitman's perfect silence is perhaps the truest of all appreciations. At the end of the day, this is how we should be approaching this art form. Every person is capable of expressing themselves: some choose poetry. I've put lots of poems, essays, links, and other related things into this site, so if thats your thing, enjoy. Here's a poem by Billy Collins. Though it may seem corny at first glance, I think that it wonderfully expresses a view on poetry that is too often overlooked. Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive.

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16. Poet: Billy Collins - All Poems Of Billy Collins All poems of billy collins .. billy collins. billycollins, the US Poet Laureate read the press release Get your poems here site info. billy collins. billycollins. billycollins reads all http://www.poemhunter.com/p/t/poet.asp?poet=8221

17. Billy Collins billy collins is professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and America s Poet Laureate for 2001. http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/biographies/collins.html

Poems: Candle Hat Consolation Forgetfulness Japan ... Thesaurus Billy Collins is professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and America's Poet Laureate for 2001. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Harper's , and many other magazines, and he is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Questions About Angels was a winner of the National Poetry Series publication prize. The Art of Drowning is his fifth book of poetry. He lives in Somers, New York. Praise for Billy Collins's Poetry... "Billy Collins writes lovely poems — lovely in a way almost nobody's since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides." — John Updike "Billy Collins is an American original — a metaphysical poet with a funny bone and a sly, questioning intelligence. He is an ironist of the void, and his poems — witty, playful and beautifully formed — bump up against the deepest human mysteries. — Edward Hirsch

18. Poetry 180 Poetry 180 Poetry 180 is the Internet project of billy collins, the Poet Laureate of the United States. quot;Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/&y=022C7454C3

19. Billy Collins- Marginalia billy collins. This poem formerly appeared on this site in What Is Found There, an archive of contemporary poetry. This poem is Copyrighted by billy collins. http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/poetry/collinsmarginalia.htm

Read by Billy Collins) Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just get my hands on you, Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien, they seem to say, I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head. Other comments are more offhand, dismissive - "Nonsense." "Please!" "HA!!" - that kind of thing. I remember once looking up from my reading, my thumb as a bookmark, trying to imagine what the person must look like why wrote "Don't be a ninny" alongside a paragraph in The Life of Emily Dickinson. Students are more modest needing to leave only their splayed footprints along the shore of the page. One scrawls "Metaphor" next to a stanza of Eliot's. Another notes the presence of "Irony" fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.

20. Poet Laureate Consultant In Poetry (Library Of Congress) Mona Van Duyn, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Stanley Kunitz and billy collins. cybercasts of collins' at the Library of Congress. billy collins' books of poetry include http://lcweb.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html

Home Poet Laureate Poetry Cybercasts Schedule of Events ... Related Sites Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Former Poets Laureate: Billy Collins Stanley Kunitz Robert Pinsky Special Consultants in Poetry for 2000: Rita Dove W.S. Merwin About the Position, Poet Laureate Poets Laureate, 1937-Present About the New Poet Laureate, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 2003-2004. O L ouise Glück is the author of nine books of poetry, including "The Seven Ages" (Ecco Press, 2001); "Vita Nova" (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker magazine's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); "The Wild Iris" (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; "Ararat" (1990), which received the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and "The Triumph of Achilles" (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. Louise Glück has also published a collection of essays, "Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry" (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. This fall, Sarabande Books will publish in chapbook form a new, six-part poem, "October."

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