Bill Murray: Actor, Comedian, and…Poetry Reader?
Open Culture has not one, not two, but three separate videos of Bill Murray performing at a poetry reading. The poems he’s chosen are “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins, “What We…
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Bright Wings An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds edited by Billy Collins
Barbara Berman reviews Bright Wings An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds edited by Billy Collins today in Rumpus Poetry.
FUNNY WOMEN #45: One-Handed Reading
Loads of people have slept with authors or well-read individuals, but what would it be like to sleep with a book?
The Art of Drowning
Billy Collins’s poem “The Art of Drowning” animated by Diego Maclean. Via Poetry Foundation.
Notable New York, This Week 9/21-9/27
As the New York Bureau Chief, I thought it might be a good idea to round up some notable literary and cultural events going on around New York that I…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Billy Collins says we need better poets in the US: “There’s an awful lot of bad poetry out there. I’d say about 87 percent of the poetry in America isn’t…