1. Billy Collins - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941 to William and Katherine Collins. He graduated with a bachelor s degree from the College of the Holy Cross http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Collins

Billy Collins From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search William A. ("Billy") Collins (born March 22 ) is an American poet . He served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. In his home state, Collins has been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for Contents Biography Work Critical reception Quotations ... edit Biography Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941 to William and Katherine Collins. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and received his doctorate from the University of California, Riverside Collins is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he joined the faculty in 1968 and has taught for over thirty years. Additionally, he is a founding Advisory Board member of the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies at Lehman College. He also has taught and served as a visiting writer at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York

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3. Undressing Billy Collins Billy Collins, America s former Poet Laureate, with his startling images and an antic disposition, wows audiences wherever he recites his quirky, funny, http://www.hermes-press.com/collins1.htm

Undressing Billy Collins By Michelle Mairesse Billy Collins, America's former Poet Laureate, with his startling images and an antic disposition, wows audiences wherever he recites his quirky, funny, touching, contemplative poems . He cites Wordsworth as a major influence, but his approach to Wordsworth and other poetic icons of the past is rarely reverential. His impulse is to conflate or deflate. "Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey," for example, parodies Wordsworth's nostalgia on revisiting old haunts and concludes: Nothing will be as it was a few hours ago, back in the glorious past before our naps, back in the Golden Age that drew to a close sometime shortly after lunch In "Monday Morning" he steals the imagery of Wallace Stevens's magisterial "Sunday Morning" to describe a vacuous student, and in "Musée des Beaux Arts Revisited" he recasts Auden's stoic "Musée des Beaux Arts" as a surreal study in mental anguish. In the racily titled "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes" Collins ends his poem by assimilating Dickinson's sigh on being relieved of her confining nineteenth century undergarments with the sigh of readers who have been jolted by Emily's mind-expanding metaphors. So I could plainly hear her inhale when I undid the very top hook-and-eye fastener of her corset and I could hear her sigh when finally it was unloosed

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5. Billy Collins - Wikiquote From Wikiquote. Jump to navigation, search. Billy Collins (born in 1941) is an American poet, who was the New York State Poet Laureate 200406. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Billy_Collins

Billy Collins From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Billy Collins (born in ) is an American poet, who was the New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06. edit Sourced edit Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry Online text Novelists, playwrights, painters and others may hold in their heads the expectation of fame, but not poets. Having chosen that road, all one can dream of is the jealousy of one's rivals. Celebrity is unexpected and almost unseemlyit forces one to wear a constant look of chagrin, if that is possible. Unless you are Byron, who was the first poet to become a star. At its worst, fame means being known by strangersenough to bring on waves of paranoia. For the translator of poetry, there is no activity that brings you into a closer, more intimate contact with language, both the second language and your own language, which translation allows you to experience freshly. Of course, translation is the impossible art which is why it attracts often the best minds, at least those driven by difficulty. The best metaphor I know for translation is from my friend Eamon Grennan, who translated the poems of Leopardi. It's like walking in a clear mountain stream, looking at colorful stones in the water. You find one so gorgeous, you put it in your pocket, take it home and put it on a shelf. In the morning you are surprised that the stone looks so dull and without luster. You have the stone, but you have removed it from the water of its home language so it has lost its luster. It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes.

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7. RandomHouse.ca | Author Spotlight: Billy Collins Billy Collins is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, http://www.randomhouse.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=5405

8. Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Billy Collins The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/278

Home View Cart Log In More Info FURTHER READING More Poet Laureates Donald Hall Louise Glück Rita Dove Robert Hass ... Ted Kooser Related Pages Reading Recommendations External Links Poetry 180 The poet laureate's new program to encourage high school students to read a poem a day. Adopt a Poet Add to Notebook E-mail to Friend Print Photo Credit: Juliet Van Otteren Billy Collins Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941. He is the author of several books of poetry, including She Was Just Seventeen The Trouble with Poetry Nine Horses 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 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 has been chosen several times for the annual Best American Poetry series. Collins has edited

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Poem Hunter .com Poet: Billy Collins - All poems of Billy Collins 1/26/2008 7:42:54 AM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Billy Collins Poems Comments More Info Books ... Stats Poems Search in the poems of Billy Collins Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House By A Swimming Pool Outside Syracusa Candle Hat Child Development ... Man Listening To Disc Page: Comments about Billy Collins Click here to write your comments about Billy Collins Katie Finley (7/12/2006 7:48:00 PM) I saw Billy Collins when he came to Boston College and the occasion marked one of the most special moments in my (albeit brief) lifetime. If you get the opportunity to see him, take it! My favourite poems are 'On Turning Ten' and 'Love'. He is one of the poets I love best. John F (4/25/2006 2:50:00 PM) I work with some people who have created some amazing animated poetry pieces featuring poems by Billy Collins. It's a series of 10 or so and they are very well done. It's Billy Collins himself reading the poems with animation used to bring them to life. http: //video.google.com/videosearch? q=Billy+Collins

10. Billy Collins Home Page billy collins’s poetry shines brighter than others due to the sarcastic yet funny style he uses to create his poems. collins uses simplistic stanzas to try http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/03-04/Billy_Collins/Defaultcollins.htm

Echoes Main Biography Sample Poetry Inspired Poems ... Bibliography Billy Collins was named US Poet Laureate in April of 2000 for his fine American Poetry Billy Collins : Life Flashed Before My Eyes by Mazin Khoury Published Works Nine Horses Sailing Alone Around the Room Picnic Lightning The Best Cigarette The Art of Drowning Questions About Angels The Apple that Astonished Paris “But if something does flash before your eyes as you go under, it will probably be a fish, a quick blur of curved silver darting away, having nothing to do with your life or your death” states Billy Collins in his poem “The Art of drowning” ( www.bigsnap.com/billy.html ). Billy Collins’s poetry shines brighter than others due to the sarcastic yet funny style he uses to create his poems. Collins uses simplistic stanzas to try to create images that pull the reader away from real life and draw them into his poetic creation. Billy Collins’s cherished American poetry is featured largely throughout the United States. His poems rarely follow a significant topic; instead they are just thoughts that happen to pop into his head. Often, he uses poetry to offer relief in troubled times for himself and the reader. Billy Collins, a current teacher at Lehman College, was born in 1941 and has lived in New York City since his birth. Collins has completed fellowships at the New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and The Guggenheim Foundation. From day one, his talents as a writer shined through, as he was able to express his thoughts on paper well throughout grade school. Billy Collins doesn’t force meter or rhyme into his poems in order to draw the reader’s attention; instead he uses his witty descriptions and comedy. As quoted by Richard

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Full online index: Poems by Billy Collins Billy Collins' poems populate the web - now they're all linked from one handy place. Find the one you've been looking for. go there Book Billy for Your Event Mr. Collins is available for real live appearances. go there Interviews and Articles Learn more about the man behind the poems. go there Billy-friendly Poetry Sites + These poetry sites sing the praises of poetry by consistently publishing great stuff including you know who. Many feature online audio. More Poetry Sites More ways to feed your online obsession. go there Stop Being so Serious! Some sites that aren't afraid to laugh at themselves. go there Big Snap Exclusive: Billy Collins Central If a Billy Collins poem exists online, chances are you'll find its link here . Also see our interviews, articles and relevant publications. Poetry Resources We're pleased to present a select list of Poetry Resources on the web, many of which feature audio. Word of Mouth Know a site, page or link that belongs on this page? Please email your suggestions to suggest@bigsnap.com

12. Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins - Poetry (Library Of Congress) On June 21, 2001, billy collins was appointed as the Library s new Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. In 2002, he was appointed to a second term, http://www.loc.gov/poetry/more_collins.html

@import url(/poetry/css/poetry_ss.css); @import url(/poetry/css/poetry_sub.css); skip navigation Options The Library of Congress Poetry > Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins Poetry Home Poet Laureate Poetry News, Events Poetry Webcasts ... About the Poetry and Literature Center Related Resources at the Library Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature Walt Whitman Collection from American Memory Van Vechten's Portraits of Creative Americans from American Memory Poetry Reference Resources at the Library of Congress ... Email Updates Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins Current Poet Laureate About the Position Poetry Room Past Laureates On June 21, 2001, Billy Collins was appointed as the Library's new Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. In 2002, he was appointed to a second term, continuing through 2003. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where he has taught for the past 30 years. He is also a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and served as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. View cybercasts of Collins' at the Library of Congress.

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Speaker Menu Russell Banks A. S. Byatt Michael Chabon Billy Collins Bernard Cooper Michael Cunningham Anne Fadiman Jonathan Franzen Ira Glass Terry Gross Daniel Handler Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Jane Hirshfield Elizabeth Kolbert Tony Kushner Jhumpa Lahiri Anne Lamott Barry Lopez Armistead Maupin Frances Mayes Alexander McCall Smith W.S. Merwin Anchee Min Azar Nafisi Kathleen Norris Naomi Shihab Nye Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Michael Ondaatje Suzan-Lori Parks Robert Pinsky David Rakoff Adrienne Rich Frank Rich Luis Rodriguez Mark Salzman Robert Sapolsky Marjane Satrapi Orville Schell Alice Sebold David Sedaris Maurice Sendak Scott Simon Art Spiegelman Amy Tan Sarah Vowell Chris Ware Terry Tempest Williams home 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 a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker The Paris Review , and The American Scholar Billy Collins has published eight collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels The Art of Drowning Picnic, Lightning

14. The Best Cigarette + Billy Collins Web site of former US Poet Laureate billy collins. Includes poems, index, books, recordings and resources. http://www.bestcigarette.us/

The Best Cigarette + Billy Collins Poems, Index, Books, Recordings and Resources Requests FREE Downloads The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins This recording is now free to download CDs are no longer available to purchase. You are welcome to download the recording, burn your own CDs and give them away ( details Download : Free from the Internet Archive or Download.com Purchase : Billy Collins books or a DVD Download : poems as iPod NOTES for reading on the move Read + Hear + Watch : poems, indexes, audio and video Visit : the Steven Barclay Agency for booking Billy Collins Contact Us : About the CD or this site Books By... RELEASE: Aug 2006: Billy Collins Live (CD) BILLY COLLINS: Nine Horses : Poems Billy Collins: Picnic, Lightning (Pitt Poetry Series (Paper)) Billy Collins: Questions About Angels (Pitt Poetry Series) ... RELEASE: Oct 2006: The Trouble with Poetry Books involving... BILLY COLLINS: 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day Dylan Thomas: Dylan Thomas CD : The Caedmon Collection Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate BILLY COLLINS: Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry

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Budapest animation by Julian Grey/Head Gear Forgetfulness animation by Julian Grey/Head Gear Hunger animation by SamuelChristopher/FAD No Time animation by Jeff Scher Now and Then animation by Eun-Ha Paek/Milky Elephant Some Days animation by Julian Grey/Head Gear The Best Cigarette animation by David Vaio/FAD directed by Will Hyde/FAD The Country animation by Brady Baltezor/Radium The Dead animation by Juan Delcan/Spontaneous Today animation by Little Fluffy Clouds/Curious Walking Accross the Atlantic animation by Mike Stolz/Manic Who is Billy Collins?

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billy collins complete resource for Billy Collins poems, books, recordings Billy Collins Complete Poems Index Books and Recordings Free Audio Downloads Email Updates Email Updates This part's important. We can keep you updated as we add new poems, downloads or books and such get released. Your email address will not be shared. (powered by Bloglet) Billy Collins - New CD released, New book released Billy's new CD has been released. The live recording was part of a benefit for WNYC public radio and includes and improptu introduction by Bill Murray. You can purchase the CD here On Monday, Billy's new book - The Trouble with Poetry - will be available from Amazon and other booksellers. You can purchase it from Amazon by clicking here Free downloads of Billy's poems are available here October 15, 2005 Permalink New Billy Collins Book - The Trouble with Poetry A new collection of poems entitled The Trouble with Poetry will be published by Random House in October (2005). We'll post a list of poem titles when they're available. You can pre-order the book from Amazon ( here June 24, 2005

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20. NPR: Billy Collins On 'The Trouble With Poetry' Poet billy collins says the central theme of poetry is death. He manages to ruminate on this in a manner both whimsical and poignant in his latest http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4990320

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