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William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016.
Billy Collins was born to a working class Irish family in Antioch, Tennessee. His father and manager, Billy Collins Sr.(1937–2018), was a welterweight professional boxer during the late 1950s and early 1960s who won 38 of his 56 professional fights. Collins Jr. followed his father's footsteps and started training with him since a very young age.
Bill Collins (racecaller) (1928–1997), Australian racecaller; Bill Collins (television presenter) (1934–2019), Australian film critic and television presenter; Billy Collins (Australian footballer) (1909–1987), Australian footballer for Melbourne; Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet; Billy Collins Jr. (1961–1984), American ...
The Art of Drowning is a book of poetry by the American Poet Laureate Billy Collins, first published in 1995. John Updike described the collection as "Lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since [Theodore] Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and ...
William Collins (born November 20, 1950) is an American sprinter, originally running for Mount Vernon High School in Westchester County, New York, where he won four state titles [1] and later at Texas Christian University [2] where he achieved "All-American" status.
Carlos "Panama" Lewis (November 4, 1945 – September 19, 2020) [1] was an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto for his fight against Billy Collins Jr. in 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career.
Resto unexpectedly beat the highly touted Collins in a 10-round unanimous decision. However, after the fight, Resto's gloves were found to be missing a significant amount of padding, which allowed Resto to increase the impact of his punches and effectiveness against Collins during the fight. This illegal tampering caused tremendous harm to Collins.
Billy Collins originally said the paradelle was invented in 11th-century France, but he later admitted that he invented it himself to parody strict forms of poetry, particularly the villanelle. [1] His sample paradelle, "Paradelle for Susan" ( c. 1997 ), was seemingly intentionally terrible, completing the final stanza with the line "Darken the ...