Billy Collins is a two-term United States Poet Laureate, New York State Poet, and the author of nine collections of poetry, including most recently Horoscopes for the Dead. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY) and a Distinguished Fellow at the Winter Park Institute of Rollins College. Collins’s honors include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. 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.”
Online Resources
Audio: Collins @ KWLS 2003 and KWLS 2010
Interview in Littoral: “The Pleasures of Disorientation”
TED Talk: ‘Everyday moments, caught in time’
on E.E. Cummings for Slate
Poetry Foundation profile
Guernica interview
Selected Bibliography
Horoscopes for the Dead (2011)
Ballistics (2008)
The Trouble with Poetry (2005)
Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001)
The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988)
Pokerface (1977)
