Billy Collins

Billy Collins, the US Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Random House, 2005). A new collection titled Ballistics will be published by Random House in the fall. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY).

Published in VQR

• The Great American Poem, Spring 2008
• August, Winter 2006
• The Summer Houses, Winter 2006
• Nothing to Write Home About, Spring 1998
• Portrait of the Reader With Cereal, Spring 1998