A Year of Reading

Hippos on Holiday by Billy Collins is not really the title of a movie but if it were I would be sure to see it. I love their short l...

Life comes at you fast, doesn't it? Last Friday morning, I posted a Billy Collins poem that was snort-worthy . I loved following the ...

photo via unsplash Despair by Billy Collins So much gloom and doubt in our poetry— flowers wilting on the table, the self regarding it...

Silence by Billy Collins There is the sudden silence of the crowd above a player not moving on the field, and the silence of the o...

Peony and Ant by Mary Lee Hahn Today by Billy Collins If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so uplifted by a warm intermitten...

Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins Random House, October 22, 2013 review copy is mine Villanelle The first...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by  Stephen Downes Poetry is an interruption of silence. Prose is the continuation of noise. Poetry is a ...

WHAT BILLY COLLINS SAID AFTER THE POETRY READING LAST NIGHT The reason there is so much bad poetry written is that the tools of poetry a...