BILLY COLLINS‘ latest collection is Nine Horses
(Random House, 2002). Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and
Selected Poems was published in 2001 by Random House. He was
the United States Poet Laureate for 2001-2002.
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2016
Sixteen Years Old, I Help Bring in the Hay on My Uncle John’s Farm with Two French-Canadian Workers
None of us expected the massing thunderheads to swing open their doors so suddenly that we would have to drop our rakes and run across the field to a shelter […]
Poetry
Winter 2003
The Stare
With a basin of warm water and a towel I am shaving my fatherlate on a summer afternoonas he sits in a chair in striped pajamas, screwing up his face […]
Poetry
Winter 2003
Advice to a Nightwalker
You do not want to linger on a bridge engulfed in fog or return any growling you might hear in the dark. Make sure to wear something white. And be […]
Poetry
Spring 1998
The Night House
Every day the body works in the fields of the world mending a stone wall or swinging a sickle through the tall grass–the grass of civics, the grass of money–and […]