Billy Collins :
Billy Collins Biographical Information Born in New York City in 1941
He has been a prolific writer, publishing volume after volume of his work Photo credit Juliet Van Otteren
Biographical Information Continued :
Biographical Information Continued First forays into poetry The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988); Video Poems (1980); and Pokerface (1977) More poems published Ballistics (2008), She Was Just Seventeen (2006), The Trouble with Poetry (2005); Nine Horses (2002); Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001)
Some of His Published Works :
Some of His Published Works Picnic, Lightning (1998); The Art of Drowning (1995), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Questions About Angels (1991), which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the National Poetry Series
Named Nobel Laureate in 2001
Commentary on Collins’ Poems :
Commentary on Collins’ Poems 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."
The Poem We Will Read :
The Poem We Will Read “The History Teacher”
This poem is about a history teacher teaching class and what the students are thinking while it happens
See if you can relate!