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Authors: Billy Collins

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B
ILLY
C
OLLINS
is the author of eight collections of poetry, including
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Apple That Astonished Paris, The Art of Drowning
, and
Picnic, Lightning
. He is also the editor of
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry
and
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
. A distinguished professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, he served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006.

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