T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to be National Poetry Month. Many schoolchildren will be admonished to pay attention to poetry these next few weeks - read, analyze, ...

Billy Collins has spent decades popularizing poetry, and I, for one, am furious. Look up “accessible” in the dictionary, and his impish face grins back. Yet will the semiliterate masses trouble ...

LITTLE ROCK — Ballistics, by Billy Collins, 112 pages, Random House, $24The poem is called "Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant." It is about an old man preparing to eat rice and shredded ...

Billy Collins, the former two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, is both critically acclaimed and popular with readers, and loved by his writer peers. He is the Blockbuster Bard, a superstar among poets. Random ...

For many NPR fans, Billy Collins needs no introduction. The former Poet Laureate is widely acknowledged as America's most popular poet, regularly popping up on national best-seller lists (terra ...

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins (Random House, 172 pp., $21.95) The associated press report of Billy Collins's appointment as poet laureate in June was a ...

I often write about our state’s inexhaustible tales of “Florida Man” — that guy with a special talent for bad judgment, made worse by alcohol, firearms and a knack for comical misadventure. But I’m ...