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SWEET SOUNDS OF POETRY
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Former poet laureate Billy Collins to speak at Sinclair
Billy Collins is no longer simply `Billy Collins, poet.' Forever
more, he'll be known as `Billy Collins, the former poet laureate.'
He's OK with that, though it's a distinction he equates with being a
`former Miss Michigan.'
`It doesn't matter if your teeth are gone and your wig is crooked,
you're always going to be the former Miss Michigan,' Collins joked.
`So when my wig is crooked and my teeth are gone, I'll still be
intr...
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Interview: Billy Collins on "The Trouble with Poetry"
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
; ... room and looking so much alike it would be nearly impossible to count them. And there is no telling which one will carry the news that the Lord is a shepherd, one of the few things they already know.' (Soundbite of laughter) LYDEN: I love that poem. One of ...
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The laureate and the loudspeaker.(education work of US poet laureate Billy Collins)
Arts Education Policy Review
; Editor's note: The following essay is reprinted from Teachers & Writers Magazine 33 (4): March-April 2002. (Copyright [c] 2002 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative.) The article concerns the energetic efforts of Billy Collins, America's poet laureate, to make poetry more accessible to high
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Pushing Poetry to Lighten Up--and Brighten Up: A reader-friendly new laureate takes the stage.(BOOKS)(Arts and Entertainment)(Billy Collins becomes poet laureate)(Brief Article)
Newsweek
; The poet Billy Collins is no stranger to crowds or publicity. His six books (and one CD) have sold nearly 100,000 copies, his readings are packed and he's read his verse on A Prairie Home Companion. In September he hits another major poetical milestone, the publication of his selected poems (and
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Interview: Billy Collins--mischievous laureate
Mother Jones
; Billy Collins writes poems that make people laugh and that have reached hundreds of thousands of readers. It's a feat that should disqualify him from membership in poetry's inner circles, where high seriousness and insularity often go hand in hand. What to do with someone who uses titles like
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The trouble with this book; Popular poet Billy Collins fails to deliver in his seventh collection of verse.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Elizabeth Lund The newest book by Billy Collins was probably on the wish list for many poets this holiday season. But if you didn't find The Trouble With Poetry: And Other Poems, Mr. Collins's seventh collection, under your tree, it may be just as well. Those familiar with Collins's work
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