Poems from Billy Collins, Patricia Smith and Marc J. Straus. In a new collection of poems, Billy Collins reiterates many of his usual themes with a healthy dose of his usual panache — and performs one ...

Billy Collins believes in the beauty of short poems. He says they show how poetry can squeeze a lot of meaning into tight spaces. His new collection of short poems is called "Musical Tables," and ...

Sometimes, I do believe there is a Book God who sends the book I need, when I need it. This week, the Book God sent a special delivery of not one, but two much needed books. For years, Billy Collins ...

* The Library of Congress has named English professor Billy Collins the new U.S. poet laureate. "I haven't done a cost-benefit analysis," the 60-year-old Collins told The Post's Linton Weeks yesterday ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Billy Collins was a Poet Laureate for the United States with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Joint Meeting. Authors read works by ...