Poetic Hydraulics with Billy Collins

Simple as it may sound, this workshop will focus on the poem's transit from its beginning, through its middle to the end--so not to leave anything out. We will observe how a poem launches itself, how it finds reasons to continue to flow, and how it finally discovers a place to settle at the end. We will also examine a number of verbal maneuvers that can brighten a poem and even liberate it from itself, much to everyone's surprise and delight! In the right hands, of course.   (July 10-21)

 

Billy Collins

Billy Collins    is the author of 12 collections of poetry, most recently    The Rain in Portugal  (Random House, 2016). Others titles include    Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead ,    Questions About Angels ,    The Art of Drowning ,  Sailing Alone Around the Room ,    Nine Horses ,    Ballistics  and    Picnic, Lightning . He is also the editor of three anthologies:    Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry ,    180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday , and    Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Bird Poems . His poems have been published in a variety of periodicals including    The New Yorker ,    Harper's ,    The Atlantic , and    The American Scholar , and his work appears regularly in    Best American Poetry . A Guggenheim Fellow and a New York Public Library Literary Lion, he is a former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College, City University of New York, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College. He served as New York State Poet (2004-5) and United States Poet Laureate (2001-2003). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 

 

 

 

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