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Award-winning poet Billy Collins ’63 returned to the
College to give a poetry reading on Nov. 3 in the Brooks
Concert Hall. An English professor at the Lehman College
of the City University of New York, Collins is the author
of six books of poetry including, Picnic, Lightning; The
Art of Drowning; The Apple That Astonished Paris; and Questions
about Angels; he has also recorded a spoken word compact
disc, The Best Cigarette. Collins’ poetry has appeared
in anthologies, textbooks and a variety of periodicals including
Poetry, The Paris Review and The New
Yorker. In a recent
issue, The New York Times profiled him in a front-page article.
Other honors include having his work featured in the Pushcart
Prize anthology and The Best American Poetry anthologies
for 1992, 1993 and 1997. A recipient of fellowships from
the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment
for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, Collins has won
the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, the Oscar
Blumenthal Prize and the Levinson Prize.
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