Three Poems by Billy Collins (2007)

Three poems from the former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Hosted by the Aspen Institute, the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, http://www.aifestival.org, offers its participants a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars, and discussion events that together charged the town of Aspen with vibrant intellectual exchange. Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world all gathered in a single place—to teach, speak, lead, question, and answer.

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[WhoopMQ]

He definitely has the perfect voice for his poems.

[BassistNick]

Billy Collins has no brothers or sisters, smooth move.

[LotsOfSitting]

@BassistNick If his wife has nieces/nephews, then Billy would be their uncle.

[Ecologeeze]

"he seems like an ordinary guy. reading the thoughts he wrote down."

If you think that... perhaps you should consider the final line of the first poem for more than 0.014 seconds. I was casually listening and was not overly impressed myself until then, at which point I promptly burst into uncontrollable tears for the next several minutes.

[spoonspoonspoons]

no me first! :D

[mellonxcolliee]

it could be billy collins' wife's brother/and or sister. now, i'm not quite sure that billy collins has a wife.

i don't quite believe the kid either, but i'm just saying.

[LEDPENNY]

Ripples that move inward, toward the rock dropped in a pond...what a unique unto brilliant mode to envision vulnerability

[totalOBlivion13]

oh man i want to marry him <33

he's my favoriteeeee

[homeishell159]

THAT IS ME UNCLE! BE JEALOUS! but dont hate