“Reader-friendly, hospitable, congenial, welcoming. . .” :
“Reader-friendly, hospitable, congenial, welcoming. . .” These are some of the words which describe the poetry of Billy Collins.
John Updike raves, “Billy Collins writes lovely poems, lovely in a way almost nobody’s since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.”
In Collins’ Poetry :
In Collins’ Poetry We constantly recognize bits and pieces of our lives, uncanny insights gleaned from passing thoughts and articulated with luminous compassion.
Billy Collins :
Billy Collins Author of eight collections of poetry
Founder of Poetry 180 project
U. S. Poet Laureate from 2001-2003
Currently Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York
As U.S. Poet Laureate, Collins read his poem "The Names" at a special joint session of the United States Congress on September 6, 2002, held to remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
William “Billy” Collins :
William “Billy” Collins Collins was born March 22,1944 in New York City to William and Katherine Collins.
He attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and received a B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and received his M.A. and PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside. He was a student of Victorian Scholar and poet Robert Peters at Riverside.
Over 40 when his first significant book of poems was published.