"I knew that poets seemed to be miserable," says writer Billy Collins about his younger self, yearning to fit in. While he admits he "faked a miserable character" at the start of his career, he’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a matter of months poet Billy Collins has gained a reputation as a literary equivalent to George Foreman and left the lightweight ring forever. Selected last fall to replace Stanley Kunitz as U.S.

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 ...

How poetic is the setting at the Bearsville Theater, just outside of Woodstock, N.Y. Incense sweetens the air. A harpist plays. A vase of sunflowers and snapdragons stands near an old wooden lectern.

Famed poet Billy Collins had a packed auditorium in Rockefeller Hall last night sitting on his every word with a reading of Ballistics –– his latest poetry collection –– as well as some of his earlier ...