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3 unusual facts about Billy Collins


Billy Collins

In 2005, the CD was re-released under a Creative Commons license, allowing free, non-commercial distribution of the recording.

Billy Collins, Jr.

His father was a former professional welterweight who had once fought world champion Curtis Cokes.

Picnic, Lightning

Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins, published in 1998.


Hunting the Snark

Peters anthologizes in Hunting the Snark a comprehensive amount of poets and their poems including widely noted poets such as Robert Hass, Billy Collins, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery to obscure noted poets Wilma McDaniel, Paul Vangelisti, David Ray and Alfred Starr Hamilton.

New Delta Review

Recent contributors include many of the leading voices in international literature: Jennifer L. Knox, Paul Muldoon, Helen Dunmore, Anne Carson, Diane Lockward, Kristjana Gunnars, Billy Collins, Julia Copus, Andrew Motion, Robert Pinsky, Stacey Richter, Andrei Codrescu, and George Singleton.

Samuel Menashe

Prominent poets, critics and editors who have admired Menashe's work include Dana Gioia, Denis Donoghue, Billy Collins, Geordie Greig, and Christopher Ricks.


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