Poems from Billy Collins, Patricia Smith and Marc J. Straus. In a new collection of poems, Billy Collins reiterates many of his usual themes with a healthy dose of his usual panache — and performs one ...

We've invited Billy Collins — who served as U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003 — to play a game called, "I can feel it coming in the air tonight." Three questions about musician Phil Collins. PETER ...

This collection hit the front page of the New York Times its first time out of the blocks in 1999, as the University of Pittsburgh Press, Collins's longtime publisher ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins is endowing two classics scholarships at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, the school announced Thursday morning. The endowment is the result of a ...

Like President Obama, Billy Collins has the distinction of being a two-termer. Happily for Mr. Collins, his job as U.S. poet laureate did not require... Like President Obama, Billy Collins has the ...

Billy Collins reflects on his collection ‘Aimless Love’ and pretending to be serious Humor wasn't always integral to Billy Collins' poetry. The former U.S. poet laureate thought he had to be serious, ...

Now I end every show by saying this is NPR. And every now and then, we are required by contract to act like we really are NPR. BILL KURTIS, BYLINE: So in 2013, we invited a very classy guest to talk ...

Billy Collins distinguishes himself through his clear, accessible poetry–and by reinterpreting many traditional poetic forms. His poem "Sonnet" begins "All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen ...