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The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 Tom Thomson In Purgatory by Troy Jollimore, 2006-08-01 New Yorker Magazine July 25, 2005 Tobias Wolff Fiction, "No Country For Old Men" Book Review, Poems by Billy Collins and William Logan Poet tells freshmen to scribble, not Hi-Lite.(Higher Education)(Billy Collins, a former U.S. poet laureate, delivers the UO's convocation speech): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) by Gale Reference Team, 2006-09-25 POETRY Magazine: Collection of 47 Issues, All Featuring Billy Collins by Billy Collins, 1988 New Yorker February 4 2008 Tessa Hadley Fiction, Johnny Greenwood, Jeffrey Toobin - Death in Georga, Poems by Jean Valentine & Billy Collins New Yorker February 4 2008 Tessa Hadley Fiction, Johnny Greenwood, Jeffrey Toobin - Death in Georgia, Poems by Jean Valentine & Billy Collins Hochschullehrer (Lehman College): Eric Wolf, Billy Collins, Raymond Smullyan, Linda Keen, John Corigliano, Joseph W. Dauben, Martin Duberman (German Edition) EASY DOES THE POET.(Arts & Literature)(Ex-poet laureate Billy Collins is a booster for verse any reader might understand): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) by Gale Reference Team, 2006-09-21 Billy and the Baby (Collins Picture Lions) by Tony Bradman, 1997 The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry by Sue Ellen Thompson, 2005-08-30 The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins, 2005 The Best Teen Writing of 2007 Questions About Angels by Billy Collins, 1999

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61. Billy Collins - An Interview With The US Poet Laureate (Terra Incognita)
    Terra Incognita Bilingual Literary Magazine Interview with billy collins(Terra Incognita revista literaria bilingüe).  
    http://www.terraincognita.50megs.com/interview.html
    
    Extractions: Collins is the author of six books of poetry, including Picnic, Lightning (University Pittsburgh Press, 1998), The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995) and Questions about Angels, which was selected for the prestigious National Poetry Series. A book of selected poems, Sailing Alone Around the Room, will be published this autumn by Random House. His wry, intelligent poems can be found populating the pages of most major literary magazines in the United States, such as Poetry, American Poetry Review and Paris Review. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as many other awards, he teaches English at Lehman College, City University of New York. In June 2001, Collins was named Poet Laureate of the United States. This interview was conducted via a series of e-mails in January 2001. Alexandra van de Kamp: Billy Collins: Alexandra van de Kamp: How has geographic travel played a role in your poetic life?

62. Billy Collins
    entertainment peopleArts and Entertainment—Entertainment Biographies—CBilly collins poet Born 1941 Birthplace New York City.  
    http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0901571
    
    Extractions: Collins was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 2001. His accessible poems, often about ordinary people and situations, have made him one of the country's most popular poets. Collins uses a sly, ironic wit to convey subtle messages. His collections include The Apple That Astonished Paris The Art of Drowning (1995), and Picnic, Lightning

63. Billy Collins; Recueils : La Voix Des Poètes-ecrits...vains ?
    Translate this page billy collins, poète Lauréat 2001-2002. sommaire de la rubrique. Un poème debilly collins La Pomme Qui Etonna Paris The Apple That Astonished Paris.  
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64. Billy Collins, Par Saïdeh Pakravan
    http://ecrits-vains.com/litterature_etrangere/pakravan01.htm
    
    Extractions: Nul n'ignore que les Américains sont responsables de tout ce qui ne va pas dans le monde: tournés vers l'avenir, prospères, bêtement optimistes, se mêlant de ce qui ne les regarde pas, et utilisant sans rire des mots tels que liberté, travail, et patrie. De surcroît, voila qu'ils ont à présent l'outrecuidance de penser que six mille des leurs réduits en poussière le 11 Septembre méritent que l'on poursuive et châtie les responsables! Un comble! Nul n'ignore non plus que les Américains sont frustes, manquent de culture, et que leurs seules valeurs sont matérielles. Comment expliquer, alors, la floraison d'artistes de toutes disciplines et entre autres de poètes qui s'ajoute à un tableau de plus en plus impressionnant? Passant en revue ceux qui, depuis les premiers temps de la République, ont choisi de s'exprimer en vers, on peut énumérer, outre les géants Emerson, Longfellow, Walt Whitman et Emily Dickinson, de spectaculaires talents tels Wallace Stegner, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, pour arriver à nos contemporains: Mark Strand, John Ashberry, Philip Levine, Donald Hall, ou Louise Glück. Et on pourrait en aligner comme ça des douzaines, sans même avoir besoin de puiser dans des plus petits talents. Ceci dit, un poète riche, ça n'existe pas–exception faite, peut-être, de James Merrill, héritier d'un des grands noms de la finance, mort d'une crise cardiaque il y a quelques années. Peu d'entre eux sont à l'aise ou parviendraient même à joindre les deux bouts s'ils n'entraient dans l'enseignement. Depuis les universités prestigieuses de l'Ivy League jusqu'aux petits collèges sans prétention des villes de province, de nombreux établissements se targuent d'avoir un poète à demeure dans leur "English department" . Ces poètes offrent, bien sûr, des cours de poésie, mais organisent aussi des ateliers et des rencontres, publient des revues littéraires, souvent de haut niveau, financées par l'université, et leurs propres recueils (que l'on appelle ici des "collections").

65. Page8 Poetry
    Poetry, links, forums, and collections ranging from Shakespeare to billy collins.  
    http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/page8/
    
    Extractions: Whitman's perfect silence is perhaps the truest of all appreciations. At the end of the day, this is how we should be approaching this art form. Every person is capable of expressing themselves: some choose poetry. I've put lots of poems, essays, links, and other related things into this site, so if thats your thing, enjoy.

66. Billy Collins Career Statistics
    8 billy collins. DOB 11/17/81 Hometown Enderby, BC Ht 62 Wt 195 Year-by-YearSummary. Click season for Game-by-Game breakdown Season, GP, G, A, Pts. PPG, SHG.  
    http://uscollegehockey.com/stats/player.php?pid=6390&gender=m

67. UniverCity 2002: Billy Collins
    billy collins, 200102 US poet laureate, combines high critical acclaimwith broad popular appeal unlike any poet since Robert Frost.  
    http://web.bsu.edu/univercity/speakers/collins_billy.htm
    
    Extractions: Sponsor: Ball State's Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry WEB SITE www.bigsnap.com/billy.html Billy Collins, 2001-02 U.S. poet laureate, combines high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal unlike any poet since Robert Frost. His work appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The American Scholar, and his last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. People of all ages and backgrounds enjoy him at readings and on National Public Radio. Collins' appearances often draw standing-room-only crowds and include people from all races and backgrounds. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note, but soon takes and unexpected turn; poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. Collins sees his poetry as "a form of travel writing" and considers humor "a door into the serious."

68. Billy Collins And Edwidge Danticat
    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2001. billy collins EDWIDGE DANTICAT. Note speciallocation! Cullen Performance Hall, University of Houston. 730 pm.  
    http://www.inprint-inc.org/collins2001.htm
    
    Extractions: University of Houston 7:30 p.m. About Billy Collins, who was recently appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, Annie Proulx wrote, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours—smart, his strings tuned and resonant, his wonderful looping over the things, events, and ideas of the world, rueful, playful, warm-voiced, easy to love." He is the author of seven books of poetry, including Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems, The Art of Drowning, Questions About Angels, The Apple that Astonished Paris, and Picnic, Lightning . His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Haitian-American fiction writer Edwidge Danticat's first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory

69. Bold Type: Essay On Billy Collins
    Then there is the case of billy collins, an American poet of visible talent whois so sought after that a contract dispute between his publishers made the  
    http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0102/collins/essay.html
    
    Extractions: here are certain things that hold universally in publishing. One of the more axiomatic is that poetry doesn't sell. It doesn't, and perhaps there is little reason that it should. There are only rare cases in the modern age when any poet gained significant sales. Even collections of essays and cryptic engineering monographs easily outsell most poetry. Then there is the case of Billy Collins, an American poet of visible talent who is so sought after that a contract dispute between his publishers made the front page of the New York Times . His new and selected poems, Sailing Alone Around the Room , has sold over 55,000 copies in hardcover to date (this figure will likely swell nicely as he attends his appointed rounds as Poet Laureate). This is astounding. It is equivalent to a mid-list novelist suddenly selling a million copies of a book (and indeed there are cases). Such success might be expected immediately to draw derision from other poets, but Collins has already beaten them there: He's written a poem from the perspective of an envious poet observing a colleague cum antagonist ascending the pantheon of luncheons and Guggenheim checks ('The Rival Poet'). This is precisely his defense mechanism, a self-effacement, and, yes, he's even written about such defense mechanisms, in particular those used by animals in order to avoid being slopped down by larger predators ('The Butterfly Effect'). Such mechanisms are now vestigial. He is king of the poetry jungle where popularity and influence are concerned. At the

70. Billy Collins (Bold Type Magazine)
    brevis, ars longa) or a virtue (in terms of contemporary influence, hodiemihi, cras tibi). . Read poems and an essay on billy collins.  
    http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0102/collins/
    
    Extractions: Bold Type 's Poetry Editor Ernest Hilbert writes: "Whatever else may be said of Collins's poems, they are never theatrical, ominous, or corny. He is an intelligent man and a good poet, one understood in his own age. This can be viewed as a dilemma (strictly in terms of posterity, vita brevis, ars longa ) or a virtue (in terms of contemporary influence, hodie mihi, cras tibi Read poems and an essay on Billy Collins.

71. Sarah Vowell And Billy Collins At The Center For Literary Arts
    billy collins is United States Poet Laureate, author of the bestseller SailingAlone Around the Room, and nothing less than the most popular American poet  
    http://www.litart.org/sv-bc.htm
    
    Extractions: Sarah Vowell's comic monologues have been enjoyed by millions of listeners on National Public Radio’s “This American Life” and audiences for the NPR writers' joint public performances across the country. The author of three books – The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Take the Cannoli and Radio On – Vowell is a keen and bitingly funny observer of the American social scene. She has appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," and "Nightline." (More about Sarah Vowell’s books here) Vowell's work has appeared in publications such as Esquire, Salon, GQ, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin, Artforum and McSweeney's She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and written columns for Salon.com and Time Newsweek described Vowell as a "cranky stylist with talent to burn," making her its 1997 "Rookie of the Year." Free admission events Thursday, September 26, 2002 at San Jose State University: “A Conversation with Sarah Vowell” 12 p.m.

72. Amherst College : News & Events : News Releases : Billy Collins
    Poet billy collins To Speak. November 10, 2000 Contact Paul StattDirector of Media Relations 413/5428417 AMHERST, Mass.—Poet  
    http://www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/news_releases/00/collins.html
    
    Extractions: AMHERST, Mass.—Poet Billy Collins will read and discuss poetry in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall at Amherst College on Friday, Dec. 1, at 4:00 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public. “With his books selling briskly and his readings packing them in, Mr. Collins is the most popular poet in America,” according to The New York Times . He is a frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion on public radio, where he has entertained listeners with his readings of poems that charm even those who had forgotten they liked poetry. William H. Pritchard, Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College, praised Collins’s work in The Boston Globe for its “splendid inventiveness” and “his extraordinary wit—plenty of humor, yes, but plenty of intelligence, too, the way that word ‘wit’ is used to comprehend both qualities.” Collins has published six books of poetry: Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes Picnic, Lightning

73. The Selling Of Billy Collins
    The Selling of billy collins. WO weeks ago, the Poetry Center of Chicago sponsoreda reading by billy collins at the Chicago Historical Society.  
    http://www.poetrycenter.org/BillyCollinsNYT.htm
    
    Extractions: The Selling of Billy Collins (Nov 18, 2001) Selling Ben Cheever': The Book of Jobs (Oct 14, 2001) The Love of Stones': On the Trail of a Medieval Jewel (Feb 3, 2002) WO weeks ago, the Poetry Center of Chicago sponsored a reading by Billy Collins at the Chicago Historical Society. The last time the center had invited him to read, in 1993, he had been a relatively obscure poet whose last volume, "Questions About Angels," was on its way out of print. This time, Mr. Collins, who was raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, and teaches in the city university system at Lehman College in the Bronx, caused the literary equivalent of Beatlemania. More than 450 people paid $15 a ticket to hear him read from his latest book, "Sailing Around the Room," which is on best-seller lists in Washington, San Francisco and Boston. The event was sold out a week in advance. "It was one of the biggest poetry readings in the history of the center," said Kenneth Clarke, the center's executive director.

74. U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Packs Poetry Center Event
    The Poetry Center of Chicago billy collins at The Poetry Center billy collins'visit to The Poetry Center of Chicago, was covered by F Newsmagazine, the  
    http://www.poetrycenter.org/collinsevent.htm
    
    Extractions: Collins, who was appointed to the post of U.S. Poet Laureate for 2001-2002 on October 1, read from his most recent book Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems, followed by an interview with NPR's This American Life host Ira Glass. This event, the first officially "sold out" event for the Poetry Center of Chicago during the last two years, drew national media attention. On Monday, November 19, the Poetry Center was featured in the Living Arts section of the New York Times in a discussion about Collins growing fame and popularity. Collins is the author of six collections of poetry, including Picnic Lightning, The Art of Drowning and Questions About Angels. During the interview, he discussed his adoration of, aspiration to and reconciliation with poetry. He began writing poetry in the early 1970s and focused for many years on trying to be a "new Wallace Stevens," but realized that poetry didn't have to be difficult to be good. He changed his writing style to something certainly more accessible and probably unexpected in the world of serious poetry he added humor.

75. Www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/opinion/06COLL.html
    Similar pages NPR's All Things Considered US Poet Laureate billy collins billy collins New US Poet Laureate Talks About Fame, and His New Job. States.billy collins, US Poet Laureate Photo Joann Carney.  
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/opinion/06COLL.html

76. The Billy Collins Exhibit
    The billy collins Exhibit. In conjunction with Tallahassee's SevenDays of Opening Nights, Strozier Library is featuring an exhibit  
    http://www.fsu.edu/~library/explore/news/news-collins-exhibit.shtml
    
    Extractions: In conjunction with Tallahassee's "Seven Days of Opening Nights," Strozier Library is featuring an exhibit on Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Collins, who will be reading from his work during the arts festival on February 17, is the author of numerous books of poetry. The exhibit includes several of his books from the FSU Libraries' collection (The Apple That Astonished Paris, The Art of Drowning, Nine Horses, Picnic, Lightning, Questions About Angels, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes) and examples of poems published in the journal Poetry. Accompanying these items is information about Collins, his poetry, and the "Poetry 180" project he initiated to cultivate an interest in poetry among high school students. The exhibit is on the third floor of Strozier Library and will be on display through February.

77. CPR - Billy Collins: Mother's Milk By Ernest Hilbert
    As Reviewed By Ernest Hilbert. billy collins Mother's Milk. SailingAlone Around the Room New and Selected Poems by billy collins.  
    http://www.cprw.com/Hilbert/Collins.htm
    
    Extractions: Among the many impediments to which contemporary poets much admit, Dana Gioia wrote in his vital essay "Can Poetry Matter?" of notoriously poor sales figures. Whether this was the result or cause of bad behavior was not (and is still not) entirely plain. It is true that some of the English Romantic poets (certainly not the lone genius William Blake) made very real fortunes from their books, fortunes that allowed them to enjoy lives of supreme decadence by the standards of most living at the time. In that age, a book was a luxury item rather than a disposable airline read or stage of a multifarious marketing plan; it cost considerably more, largely due to the binding, and its purchase could be compared roughly to that of a microwave oven or decent futon in our economy. Conversely, literacy was confined to a drastically more narrow band of society than it is in the first world today. Only those who could read could also afford to purchase books, a very cozy market if one is willing to tolerate the overbearing moral attention paid to the printed word.

78. Billy Collins: Everyone's Poet Who Writes Ironic, Serious, And - Suite101.com
    messages from 1 to 4 of Discussions relating to Poetry Reviews billy CollinsEveryone's Poet Who Writes Ironic, Serious, and - dewey decimal 811.6.  
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79. Nine Horses: Poems By Billy Collins
    Nine Horses Poems by billy collins Somber mood casts pall over billy collins'latest work. Sunday, December 01, 2002. By billy collins. Random House ($21.95).  
    http://www.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/20021201collins1201fnp5.asp
    
    Extractions: March 24, 2003 News Sports Lifestyle Classifieds ... About Us Take me to... Search Local News Nation/World Sports Obituaries Lifestyle Business Opinion Photo Journal Weather Classifieds PG Store PG Delivery Web Extras Contact Us About Us Help Corrections Site Map Books Reviews Bob Hoover For Children ... Books Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins Somber mood casts pall over Billy Collins' latest work Sunday, December 01, 2002 By John Schulman He was way above average, had nice clean lines, and he signed with Pittsburgh, where he blossomed into a star in the 1990s. Fans flocked to see him, stood in line for his autograph, loved his affable charm. Nine Horses: Poems By Billy Collins Random House ($21.95) But Pittsburgh couldn't keep him; the fat cats in New York lured him away with a hefty contract and promises of a larger audience. OK, OK, there are lots of ways that Billy Collins is not Bobby Bonilla. Still and all ... Collins' last book with the University of Pittsburgh Press, "Picnic, Lightning" (1998), was a beautifully crafted one, a balancing act of humor and gravity, with a tempo that reflected his love of jazz. There were those deft observations on the little nuances of ordinary days that made his readers happy to be in such good company. The book was a best seller, too, by university press standards.

80. Genealogy Data
    3 APR 1911 Death 13 SEP 1982 Whitesburg, Kentucky Parents Father Sergent, ElijahLincoln Mother Craft, Jane Children collins, billy Ray collins, Thurston  
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