Billy Collins

Review: Enrique Martinez Celaya's art of displacement and longing

2012-11-23 08:02:00

Billy Collins, among the most accessible of contemporary poets and an eloquent advocate of poetry's place in public life, spoke recently about why people tend to resist the genre. Too much emphasis, he feels, is put on interpretation, to the detriment...

Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins

2010-11-04 17:55:28

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Book calendar events for the week of February 27, 2011

2011-02-27 12:03:00

Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY Tamim Ansary: The author of "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" will discuss and sign his new book. Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. 2 p.m. Free...

Geraldine R. Dodge poetry festival begins Thursday

2010-10-06 16:34:02

10/10/10: The 10 best 'Best of' books of 2010

2010-10-10 16:33:47

2011 NEA Literature Fellowships are announced

2010-11-23 16:33:31

Garrison Keillor envisions radio (but not bookish) retirement

2011-03-17 16:34:04

Obama hails White House poetry night with prose

2011-05-11 21:36:56

Jacket Copy on the Road: The Jack Kerouac house in Orlando

2011-05-10 16:34:51

Common, Elizabeth Alexander headline White House 'Evening of Poetry,' to be streamed live Wednesday

2011-05-11 16:34:52

Book calendar events for the week of April 17, 2011

2011-04-17 00:00:00

Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY Leo Braudy: The author of "The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon" will discuss and sign his new book. Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., L.A. 5 p.m. Free. (323) 660-1175....

Discoveries: 'Leaving Van Gogh' by Carol Wallace:

2011-04-10 00:00:00

Leaving Van Gogh A Novel Carol Wallace Spiegel & Grau: 268 pp., $25 "Vincent wrote once in a letter that a man who commits suicide turns his friends into murderers. What does that make me?" writes Dr. Paul Gachet in Carol Wallace's riveting...

[Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

2011-04-10 00:00:00

McIlvoy says one person in 10 stops to listen. He writes poems too, but never reads his own work. On an average day, he reads 40 poems by contemporary stylists such as John Updike, Billy Collins, Rebecca Bagget and Heather McHugh.

2005-04-20 18:55:42