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Billy Collins '63, the nation's current poet laureate, will
deliver the principal address and receive an honorary degree
at the 156th Commencement exercises, to be held at the College
on Friday, May 24. Collins, a professor of English at Lehman
College at the City University of New York and writer-in-residence
at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y., is the author
of several volumes of poetry, including Picnic, Lightning
(1998); The Art of Drowning (1995); Questions About Angels
(1991) and the recently published Sailing Alone Around the
Room: New and Selected Poems. His poetry has appeared in
anthologies, textbooks and a variety of periodicals including
Poetry, The Paris Review and The New Yorker. Collins' work
has been 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, he has received the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick
Bock Prize, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize and the Levinson Prize.
Collins lives with his wife, Diane, in Somers, N.Y.
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