Billy Collins
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"William James "Billy" Collins" is an American poet, appointed as United States Poet Laureate/Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Rollins College#Winter Park Institute/Winter Park Institute, Florida. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. He is currently a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

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...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

I think more people should be reading it but maybe fewer people should be writing it, ... there's an abundance of unreadable poetry out there.

In a world where cultures and religions are recklessly facing off, Sholeh Wolpé writes careful poems that cast a light on some of what we all hold in common.