Billy Collins: The best contemporary poet (slightly edging out me.)
Ranked #1,197 in People, #24,335 overall
11th US Poet Laureate, English professor, but most importantly,
My first time
hearing Billy Collins
All the Tweets
without metrical feets.
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- penguinova
- RT @AndersonGL: Poet Billy Collins: "Poetry is a bird. Prose is a potato."
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- switchkosterice
- RT @AndersonGL: Poet Billy Collins: "Poetry is a bird. Prose is a potato."
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- AndersonGL
- Poet Billy Collins: "Poetry is a bird. Prose is a potato."
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- Ramona_W
- @RayOnativia Few years ago I thought it'd be cool to have a book of poems like Billy Collins'. I'd call it "You're Making Us Want To Drink."
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- emilyadavis
- Especially for my family & friends currently in Maryland: Billy Collins reads his poem, "Shoveling Snow with Buddha" http://bit.ly/81Ws0T
Best of Billy
Poetry for the masses...
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Dharma, Sonnet, The Movies
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 12/20/2009) 
Picnic, Lightning (Pitt Poetry Series)
I Chop Some Parsley..., Victoria's Secret, Paradelle for Susan
Amazon Price: $10.76 (as of 12/20/2009)
Art Of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series)
On Turning Ten, The Best Cigarette, The Blues
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 12/20/2009)
Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 2005
Okay, this is a CD, but it is a must have.
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/20/2009)
Get Billy!
Billy is all over this net!
- The Best Cigarette + Billy Collins
- Not a scam. Billy's bestselling recording "The Best Cigarette" can now be downloaded for non-commercial use thanks to a Creative Commons License. I just found this today. I'm burning the CD to listen to on the way to work. Thanks, Billy!
- Billy Collins - palooza
- The uber-Billy Collins fan site. Check it out.
- Billy Collins Action Poetry
- So, I found these on YouTube (see below) and then their main site. Excellent way to hear and see poetry. Nice.
More Billy on Amazon
He's just SO great!
The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
Amazon Price: $10.04 (as of 12/20/2009)
She Was Just Seventeen
Amazon Price: (as of 12/20/2009)
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
Amazon Price: (as of 12/20/2009)
Questions About Angels: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
Amazon Price: $14.28 (as of 12/20/2009)
The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems by Billy Collins
Amazon Price: (as of 12/20/2009)
Billy Collins Action Poetry
These are sweet.
Even more Billy on Amazon
Did I mention how great he is?
Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate
Amazon Price: $45.00 (as of 12/20/2009)
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry
Amazon Price: $10.04 (as of 12/20/2009)
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 12/20/2009)
Blog on Billy Collins
Because no one is safe from the blogosphere.
- The Way I See It: A Gift of Billy Collins to Get Me Through the Night
- A Gift of Billy Collins to Get Me Through the Night. Although I thought I'd make it through this season without catching a cold, I awoke with symptoms this morning. On a cold, dreary December day, with a sore throat, I denied my illness ...
- Thanksgiving Poems By Billy Collins
- TWO THANKSGIVING POEMS BY BILLY COLLINS Reprinted with permission from "The Dreadest Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays" published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang edited by Taylor Plimpton and Miche... TWO THANKSGIVING POEMS BY BILLY ...
Billy on the web
A collection of links you can vote on.
I've gathered a handful of links to better acquaint you with this poet. His poetry is as accessible as this list, though not nearly as sterile.
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Billy Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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PoetryFoundation.org: Billy Collins
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Guernica / After Reading Some Tales of the Hindu Gods
Interesting poem of Billy's from July 2006... too more...0 points
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Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins - Poetry (Library of Congress)
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Billy Collins - Steven Barclay Agency
Want Billy to read at my birthday party in October more...0 points
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CPR: Wages of Fame: The Case of Billy Collins by Ernest Hilbert
CPR is the Contemporary Poetry Review. Very extens more...0 points
Your thoughts on Billy Collins
Heard him read? Love to read him? Have I left something off of this lens? Let me know!
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- Mar 5, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
- Yep, I'm with you. Collins rocks. I think my favorite is "Invention of the Saxaphone." 5*.
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