...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
"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.
More Billy Collins on Wikipedia.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.
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