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William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016.
Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins, published in 1998.His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies) [1] and his last before election as United States Poet Laureate.
The Art of Drowning is a book of poetry by the American Poet Laureate Billy Collins, first published in 1995. John Updike described the collection as "Lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since [Theodore] Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and ...
The Best American Poetry 2007, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by poet Heather McHugh, guest editor, who made the final selections, and David Lehman, the general editor for the series. This book is the 20th volume in the most popular annual poetry anthology in the United States.
When Collins first published the paradelle, it was with the footnote "The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the eleventh century. It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas ...
American Poetry Review: Denise Duhamel "Please Don't Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen" Columbia Poetry Review: Stephen Dunn "The Land of Is" The Georgia Review: Beth Ann Fennelly "Souvenir" Shenandoah: Megan Gannon "List of First Lines" Third Coast: Amy Gerstler "For My Niece Sidney, Age Six" American Poetry Review: Sarah Gorham "Bust of a ...
Poet: Poem: Where poem previously appeared: Ai "Back in the World" Quarterly West: Sherman Alexie "The Exaggeration of Despair" Urbanus: Agha Shahid Ali "Return to Harmony 3" Verse: A. R. Ammons: from "Strip" The Paris Review: Nin Andrews "That Cold Summer" Ploughshares: L. S. Asekoff "Rounding the Horn" American Poetry Review: John Ashbery ...
William Collins (poet) (1721–1759), English poet; William Collins (painter) (1788–1847), English landscape artist; William Lucas Collins (1815–1887), English author and clergyman of the Church of England; William Wiehe Collins (1862–1951), English architectural and landscape genre painter; Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet