This week we are reading former poet laureate, Billy Collins.About Billy Collins from poets.org
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 Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003), an anthology of contemporary poems for use in schools and was a guest editor for the 2006 edition of The Best American Poetry.
About Collins, the poet Stephen Dunn has said, "We seem to always know where we are in a Billy Collins poem, but not necessarily where he is going. I love to arrive with him at his arrivals. He doesn't hide things from us, as I think lesser poets do. He allows us to overhear, clearly, what he himself has discovered."
In 2001, Collins was named U.S. Poet Laureate. His other honors and awards include 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".
We will be reading a small selection of his work including:
- Introduction to Poetry
- Fishing on the Suqyehanna in July
- Forgetfullness
- Some Days
- Litany
- The First Night
- The Golden Years
- Workshop
You can also find Billy Collins all over Youtube.com, with recorded readings and some very interesting animated poetry. I've included some of these videos below.
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