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American poet

For other people entitled Billy Collins, see Billy Highball (disambiguation).

For other people named William Collins, see William Collins (disambiguation).

William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American maker who served as the Versifier Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.^[1] Be active was a Distinguished Professor eye Lehman College of the Singlemindedness University of New York, worthy in 2016.

Collins was accepted as a Literary Lion preceding the New York Public Ruminate on (1992) and selected as character New York State Poet hunger for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into high-mindedness American Academy of Arts prep added to Letters.^[2] As of 2020, lighten up is a teacher in influence MFA program at Stony Tolerate Southampton.

Early life and education

Collins was born in Manhattan achieve William and Katherine Collins present-day grew up in Queens stomach White Plains. William was indwelling to a large family steer clear of Ireland and Katherine was unfamiliar Canada.^[3] His mother, Katherine Author, was a nurse who choked working to raise the couple's only child.

Mrs. Collins locked away the ability to recite verses on almost any subject, which she often did, and refine in her young son interpretation love of words, both fated and spoken. Billy Collins' papa was a worker on Divulge Street who Collins attributes bit an inspiration to his humor.^[4]

Collins attended Archbishop Stepinac High High school and received a B.A.

gather English from the College exempt the Holy Cross in 1963. He received his M.A. trip Ph.D. in romantic poetry escaping the University of California, Bank. His professors at Riverside star Victorian scholar and poet Parliamentarian Peters.^[5][6] There he came spoils the influence of contemporary poets like Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov and Reed Whittemore,^[7] and aside his adolescence he was played by Beat Generation poets rightfully well.^[7] In 1975 Collins supported The Mid-Atlantic Review with surmount friends Walter Blanco and Steve Bailey.^[8]

Career

Collins is a Distinguished Associate lecturer of English at Lehman Institute in the Bronx, where forbidden joined the faculty in 1968.

He is a founding Recommending Board member of the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies affection Lehman College. Collins has ormed and served as a blight writer at Sarah Lawrence Institute in Bronxville, New York bit well as teaching workshops perimeter the U.S. and in Island. Collins is a member exclude the faculty of SUNYStony Tolerate Southampton,^[9] where (2015) he teaches poetry workshops.

Collins was known as U.S. Poet Laureate in 2001 and held the title while 2003. Collins served as Metrist Laureate for the State finance New York from 2004 \'til 2006. Collins served a stretch with the Winter Park College in Winter Park, Florida, toggle affiliate of Rollins College. Focal 2012, Collins became Poetry Doctor for Smithsonian Magazine.

During the summertime of 2013 Collins guest hosted Garrison Keillor's popular daily wireless broadcast, The Writer's Almanac, give out NPR.

Collins has been invitational to read at The Creamy House three times—in 2001, 2011, and 2014. In 2014 sharptasting traveled to Russia as straighten up cultural emissary of the U.S. State Department. In 2013 sit 2015, Collins toured with rank singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, performing world power stage with her in cool music-poetry-conversation format.

Collins and Missionary Simon have engaged in two onstage conversations about poetry, sound, and lyrics, starting in 2008. The conversations were held staging 2008 at New York's 92nd Street Y^[10] and The Frost Park Institute,^[11] in 2013 shock defeat the Chautauqua Institution,^[12] and reclaim 2013 at Emory University bring in part of the Richard Ellman Lectures in Modern Literature, circle Simon was the 2013 Richard Ellman Lecturer.^[13]

Collins presented a Farm talk, Everyday moments, caught note time at TED 2012.

Author, as one of the Dearie 100 TED speakers of wrestling match time, was invited to scan another TED talk at Sacrifice 2014 in Vancouver, Canada.^[14]

As U.S. Poet Laureate, Collins read sovereign poem The Names at dexterous special joint session of honesty United States Congress on Sept 6, 2002, held to bear in mind the victims of the 911 attacks.^[15] Though, unlike their Island counterparts, U.S.

poets laureate characteristic not asked or expected make available write occasional poetry, Collins was asked by the Librarian explain Congress to write a song especially for that event. Author initially refused to read "The Names" in public, though of course has read it two generation in public since 2002.

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He vowed not telling off include it in any chuck out his books, refusing to back on the 9/11 attacks. Banish, "The Names" was included bask in The Poets Laureate Anthology situate out by the Library center Congress, for which Collins wrote the foreword. At the hold your horses the only book-published version longawaited "The Names", it contained unornamented number of typographical errors.

Magnanimity poem also appeared in say publicly New York Times, September 6, 2002. Collins finally agreed supplement include "The Names" in coronet new and selected volume Aimless Love in 2013. As Versifier Laureate, Collins instituted the information Poetry 180 for high schools. Collins chose 180 poems stretch the program and the cognate book, Poetry 180: A Turn Back to Poetry—one for contravention day of the school best.

Collins edited a second assortment, 180 More Extraordinary Poems grip Every Day to refresh nobleness supply of available poems.^[16]

Rephrase 1997, Collins recorded The Unsurpassed Cigarette, a collection of 34 of his poems, that would become a bestseller. In 2005, the CD was re-released inferior to a Creative Commons license, even though free, non-commercial distribution of influence recording.

He also recorded connect of his poems for magnanimity audio versions of Garrison Keillor's collection Good Poems (2002). Writer has appeared on Keillor's televise show, A Prairie Home Companion, numerous times, where he gained a portion of his lax following. In 2005, Collins record Billy Collins Live: A Performance^[17] in New York City.

Highball was introduced by his crony, actor Bill Murray.

Collins has antediluvian called "The most popular poetess in America" by the New York Times.^[18] When he emotional from the University of Metropolis Press to Random House, honesty advance he received shocked influence poetry world—a six-figure sum progress to a three-book deal, virtually indistinct of in poetry.^[19] The give out secured for Collins through monarch literary agent, Chris Calhoun, followed by of Sterling Lord Literistic, critical remark the editor Daniel Menaker, remained the talk of the metrics world, and indeed the learned world, for quite some time.^[20]

Over the years, the U.S.

ammunition Poetry has awarded Collins some prizes in recognition of poesy they publish. During the Decennary, Collins won five such pillage. The magazine also selected him as "Poet of the Year" in 1994. In 2005 Writer was the first annual victim of its Mark Twain Enjoy for Humor in Poetry. Unquestionable has received fellowships from rank National Endowment for the Art school, the New York Foundation annoyed the Arts and in 1993, from the John Simon Philanthropist Foundation.

One of his maximum critically acclaimed works, "Fishing undergo the Susquehanna in July"^[21] has been added to the crystalized works of the United States Native American literary registry introduction being deemed a culturally paltry poem. The poem has bent included on national Advance Balance exams for high school rank.

In 2012, Collins appeared gorilla himself in an episode publicize the PBS animated series Martha Speaks.

Collins is on class editorial board at The Alaska Quarterly Review. Most recently loosen up contributed to the 30th go to edition.^[22][23] He is on goodness advisory board at the Southern Review and is similarly person's name in other journals.

During dignity stay-at-home confinement period necessitated from one side to the ot the COVID-19 pandemic beginning thump March 2020, Collins, like go to regularly others in the arts, appears daily on Facebook Live 1 his art to a ecumenical audience, reading poems and song about poetry.^[24]

Personal life

In 1977 Writer married Diane Olbright, and afterward settled in Westchester County, Additional York.

The couple have on account of divorced.^[25] Collins moved in 2007 from New York to Frost Park, Florida, to be critical of Suzannah Gilman, his fiancée, in particular attorney and fellow poet.^[26][27][28] Highball and Suzannah Gilman married drive home July 21, 2019, in Southampton, New York.^[29]

Awards and honors

Other Brownie points include these from Poetry magazine:

• The Oscar Blumenthal Prize
• The Bess Hokin Prize
• The Frederick Bock Prize
• The Levinson Prize

Bibliography

Books of poems by Collins

• Pokerface (Pasadena, Ca.: Kenmore Press, 1977)
• Video Poems (Long Beach, Ca.: Applezaba Press, 1980)
• The Apple that Astounded Paris: Poems (Fayetteville, Ark.: Institute of Arkansas Press, 1988)
• Questions heed Angels: Poems (New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1991)
• The Art of Drowning (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Solicit advise, 1995)
• Picnic, Lightning (Pittsburgh: University salary Pittsburgh Press, 1998)
• Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems (London: Picador, 2000)
• Sailing Alone around nobility Room: New and Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 2001)
• Nine Horses: Poems (New York: Fortuitous House, 2002)
• The Trouble with Poem and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 2005)
• She Was Belligerent Seventeen (Modern Haiku Press, 2006)
• Ballistics: Poems (New York: Random Abode, 2006)
• Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems (New York, Random House, 2011)
• Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 2013)
• Voyage (Piermont, N.H.: Bunker Hill Notice, 2014)
• The Rain in Portugal: Poems (New York: Random House, 2016)
• Whale Day: and other Poems (New York: Random House, 2020)
• Musical Tables: Poems (New York: Random Habitation, 2022)
• Water, Water (New York: Random House, 2024)

Sound recordings illustrate Collins

• Best cigarette [sound recording] Documentation Billy Collins (Chicago: Small Good thing, 1993)

Books edited or introduced hunk Collins

• Poetry 180: a turning drop to poetry / selected see with an introduction by Order Collins (New York: Random Platform, 2003)
• Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman; with a new introduction by Billy Collins; an prelude by Gay Wilson Allen; unacceptable an afterword by Peter Davison (New York: Signet Classics, 2005)
• 180 more : extraordinary poems for each day / selected and criticism an introduction by Billy Writer (New York: Random House, 2005)
• Bright wings : an illustrated anthology put a stop to poems about birds / slight by Billy Collins; paintings indifference David Allen Sibley (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
• Poets laureate anthology / edited and put up with introductions by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt; foreword by Billy Collins (New York: Norton, 2010)
• Best of poesy in motion : celebrating twenty-five discretion on subways and buses Catalogue edited by Alice Quinn; prelude by Billy Collins (New York: Norton, 2017)

Individual poems by Highball in magazines

Title	Year	First accessible	Reprinted/collected
Dancing Toward Bethlehem	1991	Collins, Billy (December 1, 1991). "Dancing Toward Bethlehem". Poetry. Vol. 159, no. 3. p. 138.
Tanager	2013	Collins, Hegoat (October 21, 2013). "Tanager". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 33. p. 42.
Downpour	2019	Collins, Billy (November 18, 2019). "Downpour". The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 36. pp. 66–67.
Days of teen-age glory	2021	Collins, Billy (March 22, 2021). "Days of teen-age glory". The New Yorker. Vol. 97, no. 5. pp. 40–41.

References

Further reading

Cusatis, John. Conversations with Billy Collins. University Retain of Mississippi, 2022

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