HIT: Billy Collins - poet

[Carolyn Gierke <cgierke@SHS.K12.NY.US>]

Billy Collins Homepage
http://www.bigsnap.com/billy.html

Sources of articles on him:
>Stainburn, Samantha
>Pushing poetry
>Teacher Magazine (ISSN:1046-6193) v13 no3 p10-11 November/
>December 2001
>(interview)
>
>Plimpton, George
>The art of poetry LXXXIII: Billy Collins
>The Paris Review (ISSN:0031-2037) v43 no159 p182-216 Fall
>2001
>(interview)
>
>Barbato, Joseph
>Billy Collins: poet on a roll takes stock
>Publishers Weekly (ISSN:0000-0019) v248 no38 p48-9
>September 17 2001
>(interview)
>
>Whited, Stephen
>Close examination
>Book (Summit, N.J.) (ISSN:1520-3204) no18 p26-7 September/
>October 2001
>
>Jones, Malcolm:1952-
>Pushing poetry to lighten up--and brighten up
>Newsweek (ISSN:0028-9604) v138 no2 p58 July 9 2001
>(interview)
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This is a good interview with Billy Collins (really) the new poet laureate.
"Pushing Poetry" <A
HREF="http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=03interview.h13">http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=03interview.h13</A>
He's planning a Poem A Day program for schools:
<A
HREF="http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=08collins.h21">http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=08collins.h21</A>
There's also a poem, "The Flight of the Reader"
<A
HREF="http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=03interviewside.h13">http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=03interviewside.h13</A>
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This is a good interview with Billy Collins (really) the new poet laureate.
"Pushing Poetry" <A
HREF="http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=03interview.h13">http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=03interview.h13</A>
He's planning a Poem A Day program for schools:
<A
HREF="http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=08collins.h21">http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=08collins.h21</A>
There's also a poem, "The Flight of the Reader"
<A
HREF="http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=03interviewside.h13">http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=03interviewside.h13</A>

I've looked around, but haven't found a lot specifically about this.  I
used
the NCTE talk archive (I belong to their middle level list) and got many
references to Collins, but not a lot about the Poetry 180 yet.
Here's the search box you can use for that:
 <A HREF="http://www.ncte.org/lists/ncte-talk/archives.shtml">NCTE-Talk
(discussion list) Welcome</A>
Good luck.  I had heard about this, and now I am definitely more
interested.
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http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=294

see this for a general collins bio & a list of links by the Academy.
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Try for info at this link:  http://www.barclayagency.com/lc_press.htm
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>The English dept at my school is interested in this project.  I had heard
>about Collins and 180 last fall on NPR and then there was an article in a
>prof journal, Education Today (maybe wrong title--tabloid sized journal on
>newsprint).  My principal has endorsed project; now my job is to locate
>the
>180 poems.  Are they listed on the LC website--I haven't looked yet.  I,
>also, would be interested in how this goes with other schools.
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thanks to all who replied.


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