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Billy Collins | Dear Reader
Billy Collins talks about his intimate relationship to the reader.
One more look @ the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar
Photo-caption highlights from "Clearing the Sill of the World," the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. An extraordinary literary event, which brought together seven U.S. Poets Laureate, as many winners of the Pulitzer Prize, up-and-coming poetic talents, and a truly remarkable audience of readers, writers, teachers, and poetry lovers of all stripe.
<i>The Pleasures of Disorientation:</i> <br>a conversation with Billy Collins
Billy Collins is a two-term United States Poet Laureate, New York State Poet, and the author of eight collections of poetry. With the Library of Congress, he established Poetry 180, a teaching aid for high school students founded on the belief that "poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race." His newest book, <em>Ballistics</em>, has spent nearly a year on the Poetry Foundation's best sellers list, where his previous book, <em>The Trouble with Poetry</em>, has now appeared for more than 120 consecutive weeks.<br> <br> In this interview, conducted over the course of several emails this summer, Collins talks about his poetic rivals, the theories of John Keats and T.S. Eliot, trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, the importance of keeping secrets in poetry, and the pleasures of disorientation.
From the Nets
Men with Jewfish, Key West, ca. 1935. From the Dale McDonald Collection, via the Monroe County Public Library on Flickr Today's haul from the deep: • Jewfish, Amberjack, or Black Drum? Carol Frost takes a look at Elizabeth Bishop's Key...
Collins, Wier to teach Writers' Workshops
We're happy to announce that two of our most popular faculty members will be returning for the Writers' Workshop Program next January 11-14. Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins will offer a three-day workshop titled "Strategies in Reader-Based Poetry."...
From the Nets
Purse seine boats fishing for menhaden. Photo by Robert K. Brigham, courtesy NOAA's Fisheries Collection. On our way to the sill of the world, we've been trolling. Here's what we're catching: • KWLS 28 will feature six past U.S. Poets...
Billy Collins: 2003
This recording was made in January of 2003, during Billy Collins's second term as Laureate. He reads a selection of poems, including "Shoveling Snow With Buddha," "Monday," "Flock," "Creatures," "The Lanyard," "The Country," "Surprise," "No Time," "Love," "Sonnet," "Japan," "Forgetfulness," "Consolation," "On Turning Ten," and "Nightclub."
KWLS 28 to Feature 7 U.S. Poets Laureate
<em>Clearing the sill of the world</em>, the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar, will feature a cast of poets including seven past and present United States Poets Laureate. The office, appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress since 1937, exists to "raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry," and serve as "the nation's official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans."
Random, not particularly germane quotes from KWLS08.2
"I have seen the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by small talk."Annie Dillard, on why she was introducing Jake Silverstein, then getting the hell off the stage. "You don't judge a painting by how precisely it portrays the object...
spotted: new Billy Collins poem
Did everyone see the poem by Billy Collins in the New York Times Magazine? It's here if you missed it, which you might easily have done, since it appears on the Food page. Accompanied by a recipe, no less. The recipe is titled, "Whole Roasted Sea Bass with Winter Vegetables." The poem is merely titled, "The Fish."
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