Billy Collins
AuthorBio
Billy Collins is the author of twelve prior collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife, Suzannah.Billy Collins Books
Water, Water
Billy CollinsMusical Tables
Billy CollinsWhale Day
Billy CollinsThe Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses
Alice QuinnHow a Poem Can Happen
Andrew KuhnThe African Svelte
Daniel MenakerThe Rain in Portugal
Billy CollinsLeaves of Grass
Walt WhitmanAimless Love
Billy CollinsHaiku in English: The First Hundred Years
Jim KacianThe Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonSailing Alone Around the Room
Billy CollinsThe Trouble with Poetry
Billy CollinsNine Horses
Billy CollinsBallistics
Billy CollinsHoroscopes for the Dead
Billy CollinsThe Best Spiritual Writing 2011
Philip ZaleskiTrout Fishing in America
Billy CollinsThe Best American Poetry 2006
David LehmanBartlett's Poems for Occasions
Geoffrey O'Brien