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An Interview with U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins

Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001-2003.
Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001-2003.

US Poet Laureate Billy Collins has been called the most popular poet in America. By Laura Spencer

Kansas City, Missouri – The author of 8 collections of poetry, Billy Collins is also a professor of English at Lehman College of City University of New York. KCUR?s Laura Spencer recently talked to Billy Collins - - who says he?s always conscious of the reader when he writes. Collins says stepping from the title to the first lines of a poem is like stepping into a canoe...a lot of things can go wrong. Rockhurst University
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