Billy Collins | United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003
Recorded Feb 27, 2003
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Billy Collins has published nine previous collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, Picnic, Lightning, and Sailing Alone Around the Room – his last three collections have broken sales records for poetry. A New York Public Library “Literary Lion,” his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar. His new collection of poems is Nine Horses.
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