![]() Collins has been invited to read at The White House three times-in 2001, 2011, and 2014. In 2012, Collins became Poetry Consultant for Smithsonian Magazine During the summer of 2013, Collins guest hosted Garrison Keillor's popular daily radio broadcast, The Writer's Almanac, on NPR. Collins served a stint with the Winter Park Institute in Winter Park, Florida, an affiliate of Rollins College. Collins served as Poet Laureate for the State of New York from 2004 until 2006. Poet Laureate in 2001 and held the title until 2003. Collins is a member of the faculty of SUNY Stony Brook Southampton, where (2015) he teaches poetry workshops. Collins has taught and served as a visiting writer at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York as well as teaching workshops across the U.S. He is a founding Advisory Board member of the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies at Lehman College. Career Ĭollins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he joined the faculty in 1968. In 1975 Collins founded The Mid-Atlantic Review with his friends Walter Blanco and Steve Bailey. There he came under the influence of contemporary poets like Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov and Reed Whittemore, and during his adolescence he was influenced by Beat Generation poets as well. His professors at Riverside included Victorian scholar and poet Robert Peters. and Ph.D in Romantic Poetry from the University of California, Riverside. in English from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 he received his M.A. Ĭollins attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and received a B.A. Billy Collins' father was a worker on Wall Street who Collins attributes as an inspiration to his humor. Collins had the ability to recite verses on almost any subject, which she often did, and cultivated in her young son the love of words, both written and spoken. His mother, Katherine Collins, was a nurse who stopped working to raise the couple's only child. ![]() William was born to a large family from Ireland and Katherine was from Canada. As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.Ĭollins was born in Manhattan to William and Katherine Collins and grew up in Queens and White Plains. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ![]() 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 a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning University of California, Riverside (MA, PhD) Professor, poet, book author, anthologist ![]()
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