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TITLE: Interview with Billy Collins
SPEAKER: Billy Collins
EVENT DATE: 12/07/2001
RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Billy Collins was the Library's Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2001-2002. His books of poetry include Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House, 2001); Picnic, Lightning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998); The Art of Drowning (1995), which was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist; Questions About Angels (1991), a National Poetry Series selection by Edward Hirsch; The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988); Video Poems (1980); and Pokerface (1977).
Speaker Biography: Billy Collins was the Library's Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2001-2002. His books of poetry include "Sailing Alone Around the Room"; "Picnic, Lightning"; "The Art of Drowning," which was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist; "Questions About Angels," a National Poetry Series selection by Edward Hirsch; "The Apple That Astonished Paris"; "Video Poems"; and "Pokerface."
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