Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins joins host Peter O’Dowd to talk about his latest collection of poetry, “Dog Show,” 25 ...

"I knew that poets seemed to be miserable," says writer Billy Collins about his younger self, yearning to fit in. While he admits he "faked a miserable character" at the start of his career, he’s ...

In a matter of months poet Billy Collins has gained a reputation as a literary equivalent to George Foreman and left the lightweight ring forever. Selected last fall to replace Stanley Kunitz as U.S.

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins (Random House, 172 pp., $21.95) The associated press report of Billy Collins's appointment as poet laureate in June was a ...

Famed poet Billy Collins had a packed auditorium in Rockefeller Hall last night sitting on his every word with a reading of Ballistics –– his latest poetry collection –– as well as some of his earlier ...

Billy Collins, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, one CD, 1.5 hrs., $20 ISBN 978-0-385-36639-7 Two-term Poet Laureate Collins offers up this compilation of poems from the chapbooks he ...

Billy Collins, the former two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, is both critically acclaimed and popular with readers, and loved by his writer peers. He is the Blockbuster Bard, a superstar among poets. Random ...

IN VERSE: Former U.S.. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, who will read at Christ School on Wednesday, Nov. 9, has been criticized for being too playful and for not burdening his poetry with personal misery ...

I often write about our state’s inexhaustible tales of “Florida Man” — that guy with a special talent for bad judgment, made worse by alcohol, firearms and a knack for comical misadventure. But I’m ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins is so popular that his poems make regular fodder for YouTube videos, being recited by everyone from Bill Murray to a 3-year-old boy. (The boy's YouTube video ...