Faculty: Billy Collins
Honors:
United States Poet Laureate (2001-2003)
Senior Distinguished Fellow, Winter Park Institute
New York State Poet (2004-2006)
New York Public Library, Literary Lion (1992)
Links:
- Meridian interview
- Action Poetry
- Billy Collins: Online Resources (Library of Congress)
- Poetry Foundation
- Guernica Magazine interview
- The Best Cigarette
- Podcast of a reading at Key West Literary Seminar, 2003
- The Pleasures of Disorientation: A Conversation with Billy Collins
Books:
- Pokerface (1977)
- Video Poems (1980)
- The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988)
- Questions About Angels (1991)
- The Art of Drowning (1995)
- Picnic, Lightning (1998)
- Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes (2000)
- Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001)
- Nine Horses (2002)
- Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Ed. 2003)
- 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Ed. 2005)
- The Trouble with Poetry (2005)
- She Was Just Seventeen (2006)
- Ballistics (2008)
- Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds (Ed. 2009)
- Horoscopes for the Dead (2010)
Last modified: Feb 7, 2012
