21. US Dept Of State - Publications billy collins is the author of six books of poetry, including Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House, 2001); Picnic, Lightning (University of http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/collins.htm

USINFO Publications WRITERS ON AMERICA Introduction Elmaz Abinader Just off Main Street Julia Alvarez Sven Birkerts The Compulsory Power of American Dreams Robert Olen Butler A Postcard from America Michael Chabon Maps and Legends Billy Collins What's American About American Poetry? Robert Creeley America's American David Herbert Donald On Being an American Historian Richard Ford How Does Being an American Inform What I Write? Linda Hogan For Life's Sake Mark Jacobs Both Sides of the Border Charles Johnson An American Milk Bottle Bharati Mukherjee On Being an American Writer Naomi Shihab Nye This Crutch That I Love Robert Pinsky A Provincial Sense of Time What's American About American Poetry? by Billy Collins Billy Collins is the author of six books of poetry, including Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House, 2001); Picnic, Lightning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998), which won the Paterson Prize; The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995); The Apple That Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1988); and Questions About Angels A new collection

22. New York State Writers Institute - Billy Collins, New York State Poet 2004-2006 billy collins, former United States Poet Laureate for two consecutive terms (20012003), is one of America s best-loved and best-selling poets. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/collinsbilly.html

Billy Collins New York State Poet Celebration March 4, 2004 (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. Page Hall 135 Western Avenue followed by a Joint Reading with NY State Author Russell Banks "Moving from the position of United States poet laureate to New York State poet laureate might seem like a demotion or a drop in rank to the military-minded. It might even appear that I am heading toward eventually being crowned laureate of my zip code. But in fact, it is very gratifying to be honored again as a representative of poetry, this time by my native state where I grew upmore or lessand continue to live." - BC Billy Collins , former United States Poet Laureate for two consecutive terms (2001-2003), is one of America's best-loved and best-selling poets. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His readings are usually standing room only, and his audienceenhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radioincludes people of all backgrounds and age groups. Author of seven collections, his poems are enjoyed by critics and readers alike for their plain language, friendly tone, intelligent humor, and profound observations about the meaning of everyday life. Nine Horses: Poems Sailing Alone Around the Room Picnic, Lightning

23. Billy Collins, Poetry In Audio: Issue Seven - The Cortland Review Poetry of billy collins in real audio Issue Seven (May 1999) - The Cortland Review. http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/7/collinsb7.htm

ISSUE SEVEN May 1999 Billy Collins T HE C ORTLAND ... EVIEW I NTERVIEW Philip Levine P OETRY Steven Ford Brown David Citino Billy Collins Robert Collins ... Thomas Swiss F ICTION Gilbert Allen Kelly Cherry Rosa Shand Stephen Sossaman B OOK R EVIEW David Kennedy Billy Collins several publications include Picnic, Lightning The Art of Drowning Questions about Angels , and the CD The Best Cigarette . His work has appeared in Poetry American Poetry Review American Scholar Harper's The Paris Review The Atlantic Monthly , and The New Yorker . He has been featured in the Pushcart Prize anthology and The Best American Poetry for 1992, 1993, and 1997. This is his first appearance in an online magazine. Search for more Billy Collins at The Cortland Review I Ask You What scene would I want to be enveloped in more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen table, floral wallpaper pressing in, white cabinets full of glass, the telephone silent, a pen tilted back in my hand?

24. 'The Trouble With Poetry,' By Billy Collins - The New York Times Book Review - N Ironic observations in conversational free verse on a poet known for his ironic observations in conversational free verse. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/books/review/08orr.html

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25. Poetry Foundation: The Online Home Of The Poetry Foundation billy collins is an American poet who has earned the respect of high school students as well as such poets as Edward Hirsch and Richard Howard. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80600

26. Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House - A Poem By Billy Collins - A Another Reason Why I Don t Keep A Gun In The House by billy collins. Of course you can also always discuss poems by billy collins with others on the http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Billy-Collins/792

Poets Members Poem of the Day Top 40 ... Privacy January 26th, 2008 - we have 237 poets , 8034 poems and 16584 comments Billy Collins - Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House The neighbors' dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark that he barks every time they leave the house. They must switch him on on their way out. The neighbors' dog will not stop barking. I close all the windows in the house and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast but I can still hear him muffled under the music, barking, barking, barking, and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra, his head raised confidently as if Beethoven had included a part for barking dog. When the record finally ends he is still barking, sitting there in the oboe section barking, his eyes fixed on the conductor who is entreating him with his baton while the other musicians listen in respectful silence to the famous barking dog solo, that endless coda that first established Beethoven as an innovative genius. Added: Viewed: Comments Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House - Comments and Information Poet: Billy Collins Poem: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House Comment 4 of 4, added on March 17th, 2007 at 3:33 AM.

27. Billy Collins: "Fiftieth Birthday Eve" ~billy collins~. FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY EVE I drop a fiftydollar bill on a crowded street, I carry a fifty-pound bag of wet sand on my shoulders. http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/collinsfiftieth.html

V P R V ALPARAISO P OETRY R EVIEW Contemporary Poetry and Poetics ~B ILLY C OLLINS F IFTIETH B IRTHDAY E VE The figure alone is enough to keep me wide awake, the five with its little station master's belly and cap with the flat visor, followed by the zero, oval of looking glass, porthole on a ghost ship, an opening you stick your arm into and feel nothing. I want to daydream here in the dark, listening to the trees behind the house reciting their poems, bare anonymous beings, murmuring to themselves in lines that reach out like long branches in spring. I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breeze that might be blowing across the lake of consciousness. But I keep picturing the number, round and daunting: I drop a fifty-dollar bill on a crowded street, I carry a fifty-pound bag of wet sand on my shoulders. I see fifty yearlings leaping a fence in a field, I fan the five decades before me like a poker hand. I try contemplating the sufferings of others, Rossini, for example, considered by many to be the Father of Modern Insomnia for his prolonged sleeplessness during the composition of the William Tell Overture But even a long meditation on the life of Brahms

28. Billy Collins - Poetry Archive billy collins (b. 1941) is a genuinely popular poet whose books have sold over 200000 copies since the appearance of his first collection, Pokerface, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=6478

29. Billy Collins (I) Self Loaded Gun Life and Death and Dickinson. Not since Robert Frost has a contemporary poet matched their critical Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172170/

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30. Poetry billy collins’s latest collection is The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Random House, by billy collins. That morning under a pale hood of sky http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0706/poem_178394.html

July 2006 Buy This Issue >> Subscribe >> Billy Collins’s latest collection is The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Random House, 2005). He recently contributed an introduction to an anthology of paradelles published by Red Hen Press. Irish Poetry by Billy Collins That morning under a pale hood of sky I heard the unambiguous scrape of spackling against the side of our wickered, penitential house. The day mirled and clabbered in the thick, stony light, and the rooks’ feathered narling astounded the salt waves, the plush coast. I lugged a bucket past the forked coercion of a tree, up toward the pious and nictitating preeminence of a school, hunkered there in its gully of learning. Only later, by the galvanized washstand, while gaunt, phosphorescent heifers swam beyond the windows, did the whorled and sparky gib of the indefinite wobble me into knowledge. Then, I heard the ghost-clink of milk bottle on the rough threshold and understood the meadow-bells that trembled over a nimbus of ragwort— the whole afternoon lambent, corrugated, puddle-mad. SEARCH SUBSCRIBE New Subscriptions Gift Subscriptions Renewals Change of Address ... Contact

31. Featured Book & Poet Published by The University of Arkansas Press, The Apple that Astonished Paris is the third book of poems by billy collins. The Hudson Review describes the http://www.cstone.net/~poems/appl2col.htm

Introduction to Poetry from Billy Collins's The Apple that Astonished Paris Online Bookstore Listing Billy Collins has published four volumes of poetry: The Art of Drowning Questions About Angels Video Poems , 1980; and Pokerface , 1977. Mr. Collins was awarded a National Poetry Series publication prize for Questions About Angels . His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Poetry Chelsea Boulevard TriQuarterly The New Yorker American Poetry Review ; and The Paris Review . Mr. Collins lives in New York and teaches at Lehman College (CUNY). About The Apple that Astonished Paris Published by The University of Arkansas Press, The Apple that Astonished Paris is the third book of poems by Billy Collins. The Hudson Review describes the selections in The Apple that Astonished Paris as "highly accessible... delightful in their wit, friendly lines, odd juxtapositions..." The Apple that Astonished Paris by Billy Collins ISBN#: 1-55728-023-1 ISBN# 1-55728-024-X The University of Arkansas Press 201 Ozark Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201

32. Billy Collins In his introduction to Best American Poetry 2006, billy collins specifies some selection criteria, so it s interesting to see to what extent he follows his http://baymoon.com/~ariadne/poets/billy.collins.htm

Billy Collins New books on writing poetry Highlights of Poetry Index of poetry How to Write Poetry How to write specific forms: Haibun Haiku Hay(na)ku Rengay ... Villanelle Poets: Adam Zagajewski Aleda Shirley Anne Carson The Beowulf Poet ... Kay Ryan Laureate Poets: Britain USA Len Anderson Les Murray ... Pulitzer Poetry Prize (U.S.A). Richard Hugo Robert Bly Sappho Sara Teasdale ... W.S. Merwin Billy Collins Books of Poetry (alphabetical) Billy Collins exercise Time Line Books Billy Collins featured in: Best American Poetry: 2007 (guest editor Heather McHugh) with "The New Today". Best American Poetry (guest editor Lyn Hejinian) with "The Centrifuge". Best American Poetry (guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa) with "Litany". Best American Poetry (guest editor Robert Hass) with "Snow Day". Best American Poetry (guest editor Rita Dove) with "Man Listening to Disc". Best American Poetry (guest editor Robert Bly ) with "Dharma".

33. Online NewsHour: Billy Collins - December 10, 2001 ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH The new poet laureate is billy collins, and he gave his inaugural reading at the Library of Congress last week. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec01/collins_12-10.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); BILLY COLLINS December 10, 2001 Elizabeth Farnsworth talks to the new poet laureate, Billy Collins. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The new poet laureate is Billy Collins, and he gave his inaugural reading at the Library of Congress last week. He is the author of six collections of verse, the most recent, Sailing Alone Around the Room , was published in September and it's been a best seller in San Francisco, Boston, and other cities. The book is in its fifth printing, which is unusual for poetry. Collins is Professor of English at Lehman College, City university of New York, where he has taught for 30 years. Thanks for being with us, Mr. Collins, and congratulations on being Poet Laureate. BILLY COLLINS, Poet Laureate: Thank you very much. It's good to be here.

34. [minstrels] Marginalia -- Billy Collins I was reading Martin s comment on Litany and thought I d add one to the minstrels billy collins collection. I m not sure if the comment is outdated, http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1130.html

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35. Billy Collins Action Poetry And Alan Watts Gets The South Park Treatment - (37si billy collins action poetry Former Poet Laureate, billy collins, reads his poetry with accompanying animations. Forgetfulness is a good one to start with. http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/557-billy-collins-action-poetry-and-alan-watt

This is Signal vs. Noise , a weblog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more. Established 1999 in Chicago. Visit the Product Blog for more information on our products. Jobs: Gigs: Billy Collins action poetry and Alan Watts gets the South Park treatment Matt Aug 03 2 comments Latest by Ben Rigas Billy Collins action poetry : Former Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, reads his poetry with accompanying animations. Forgetfulness is a good one to start with. South Parkers animate words of religious expert and philosopher Alan Watts Related Animation of a Samuel L. Jackson Pulp Fiction speech in type 2 comments so far keith bohanna 03 Aug 07 Meanwhile a talented bunch of young theatrical types in Kilkenny, Ireland are preparing to put on the first play of a work from Trey Parker. For more see here: http://www.kenmc.com/2007/08/03/cannibal-the-musical-artwork/ and http://www.devioustheatre.com keith Ben Rigas 05 Aug 07 Those Alan Watts animations are great. I found more here: Alan Watts Theater Comments are closed Looking for something? Visit the

36. Billy Collins Project billy collins, from ‘The Literary Life’ in ‘Nine Horses’. Study in Orange and White by billy collins I knew that James Whistler was part of the Paris scene http://www.stpetershigh.org.uk/DEPARTMENTS/ENGLISH_DEPT/PRUSH/KS4_Resources/Bill

more life-size the poetry of Billy Collins Poetry by Billy Collins Call it a field where the animals who were forgotten by the Ark come to graze under the evening clouds. Or a cistern where the rain that fell before history trickles over a concrete lip. However you see it, this is no place to set up the three-legged easel of realism or make the reader climb over the many fences of a plot. Let the portly novelist with his noisy typewriter describe the city where Francine was born, how Albert read the paper on the train, how curtains were blowing in the bedroom. Let the playwright with her torn cardigan and a dog curled on the rug move the characters from the wings to the stage to face the many-eyed darkness of the house. Poetry is no place for that. We have enough to do complaining about the price of tobacco, passing the dripping ladle, and singing songs to a bird in a cage. We are busy doing nothing - and all we need for that is an afternoon, a rowboat under a blue sky

37. The Paris Review - "On Turning Ten" billy collins On Turning Ten Cipriani, 2003 Running Time 522 I evolved like many people from a gatecrasher at 72nd Street to an invited guest. http://www.parisreview.com/viewaudio.php/prmMID/5256

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38. A Prairie Home Companion From American Public Media billy collins writes lovely poems, John Updike has said. He does indeed. His broad popular appeal combined with high critical claim led collins to be http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2006/12/16/guests.shtml

Search: Archive About Schedule/Tickets Stations ... Shop Special Guests Saturday, December 16, 2006 Billy Collins Questions About Angels The Art of Drowning Picnic Lightning Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes Nine Horses The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems She Was Just Seventeen , a collection of his haiku published by Modern Haiku Press. He also edited two anthologies of contemporary poetry: Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day . His work has appeared in The New Yorker The Paris Review Poetry American Poetry Review The American Scholar Harper's and many other magazines, and he's the recipient of numerous poetry prizes, including the Poetry Foundation's Mark Twain Award for humor in poetry. Collins has been a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York. Jerry Douglas The Best Kept Secret (Koch Records). The Jerry Douglas Band is Gabe Witcher on violin, Guthrie Trapp on mandolin and guitar, Todd Parks on bass, and

39. Billy Collins | An Interview With The US Poet Laureate (Terra Incognita) Terra Incognita Bilingual Literary Magazine Interview with billy collins (Terra Incognita revista literaria bilingüe) http://www.terraincognita.50megs.com/interview.html

Felicitous Spaces: An interview with U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Collins is the author of six books of poetry, including Picnic, Lightning (University Pittsburgh Press, 1998), The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995) and Questions about Angels, which was selected for the prestigious National Poetry Series. A book of selected poems, Sailing Alone Around the Room, will be published this autumn by Random House. His wry, intelligent poems can be found populating the pages of most major literary magazines in the United States, such as Poetry, American Poetry Review and Paris Review. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as many other awards, he teaches English at Lehman College, City University of New York. In June 2001, Collins was named Poet Laureate of the United States. This interview was conducted via a series of e-mails in January 2001. Alexandra van de Kamp: Billy Collins: Alexandra van de Kamp: How has geographic travel played a role in your poetic life?

40. Cloudy Thinking » Blog Archive » BigThink: Billy Collins Reads His Poem “ billy collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States, reads “The Lanyard” in this video. Enjoy. The video comes from BigThink, a new site that presents http://blog.eronj.com/2008/01/12/bigthink-billy-collins-reads-his-poem-lanyard/

Cloudy Thinking Left of Zen: Top 100 Funny Quotes Tim Walker: Fewer meetings should lead to more “Flow” Billy Collins ... this video . Enjoy. The video comes from BigThink, a new site that presents videos of interesting people talking about interesting stuff. Think of it as YouTube for intellectuals. More on BigThink here [via Twitter, Len Edgerly This entry was posted on Saturday, January 12th, 2008 at 8:33 am and is filed under General . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Cloudy Thinking is proudly powered by WordPress Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS)

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