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B I LL Y C O LL I N S

B I LL Y C O LL I N S. Jake Sager. Paul Flanagan. Michael Andrews. American 2001 U.S . Poet Laureate Sometimes referred to as the most popular poet in America

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B I LL Y C O LL I N S

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  1. BILLY COLLINS Jake Sager. Paul Flanagan. Michael Andrews.

  2. American • 2001 U.S. Poet Laureate • Sometimes referred to as the most popular poet in America • He has received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation Background Information

  3. Earned a BA from the college of Holy Cross • Earned an MA and PhD from the University of California-Riverside • Chosen several times for the best American poet series career

  4. Born in New York City • Mom was a nurse • Had ability to recite entire verses on almost any subject. • Ability inspired Billy’s love of words Childhood

  5. Poem- Fire

  6. Pokerface (1977) • The Art of Drowning (1995) • Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes (2000) • The Trouble with Poetry, and Other Poems (2005) • She Was Just Seventeen (2008) • Horoscopes for the Dead (2011) Some Notable Works

  7. LiteraryCriticism

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