Billy Collins
Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy Collins is the author of a dozen collections of poetry, most recently Horoscopes for the Dead (Random House, 2011). His many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry. He is the Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute in Florida and teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
Reading List
Child Lost at the Beach
This time, the boy had gone missing for so many hours that a television crew was sent to cover the story, which is how I came to hear one lifeguard explain to the camera that a lost child will usually …
Sunday Walk
Not only colorful beds of flowers ruffled today by a breeze off the lake but the ruffled surface of the lake itself, and later a boathouse and an oak tree so old its heavy limbs rested on the ground. And …