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Billy Collins' father was a worker on Wall Street who Collins attributes as an inspiration to his humor. [ 4 ] Collins attended Archbishop Stepinac High School and received a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963.
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 ...
In addition to investigating Lewis as the primary factor to the incident, the documentary also speaks about the Collins family's litigious nature following the incident, suggesting that the family had taken advantage of Billy's injuries to get a large settlement from the New York State Athletic Commission, and their efforts to prevent Collins ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.