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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