Billy Collins

About The Author

Billy Collins is the award-winning author of The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, and Picnic, Lightning, among other poetry collections. He has edited the anthologies Poetry 180 and 180 More. He is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where he has taught for the past thirty years. From 2001 to 2003 he served as the Poet Laureate of the United States.

Books by Billy Collins

The Best American Poetry 2006

Series Editor David Lehman

By Billy Collins
Edited by David Lehman
A vivid anthology of poems filled with wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, selected by guest editor Billy Collins.
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