Readings and Talk by Poet Laureate Billy CollinsReadings and Talk by Poet Laureate Billy Collinshttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/121742Roberts Marshall Auditorium2010-04-23T19:00:002010-04-23T21:00:00
April 23, 7:00PM
Roberts Marshall Auditorium
All members of the community to welcome to attend this evening with Billy Collins
Description
Billy Collins served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003, and has been called "The most popular poet in America" by the New York Times.
Collins was born in New York City in 1941. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Ballistics (2008), She Was Just Seventeen (2006), The Trouble with Poetry (2005); Nine Horses (2002); Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001); Picnic, Lightning (1998); The Art of Drowning (1995), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Questions About Angels (1991), which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the National Poetry Series; The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988); Video Poems (1980); and Pokerface (1977).
Q&A and book signing will immediately follow the event.
Sponsored by the Students Council Speakers Committee.
Link: http://www.billy-collins.com/
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