Billy Collins

Billy Collins is the author of seven collections of poetry,
including Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room,
Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic,
Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning
Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every
Day. A distinguished professor of English at Lehman College
of the City University of New York, he was Poet Laureate of
the United States from 2001 to 2003. He currently serves as
the Poet Laureate of New York State.