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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.
In the Japanese manga Sailor Moon, written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi, the "River of Forgetfulness" appears in act 56, the seventh act of the Stars arc. Sailor Lethe, guardian of the planet Lethe, is the watchman of the river. Sailor Lethe's much less aggressive sister, Sailor Mnemosyne, is the watchman of the "River of Memory."
Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins, published in 1998.His fourth book of poetry, it was his first to be widely published (selling over 50,000 copies) [1] and his last before election as United States Poet Laureate.
NFL draft picks, carolers and bacon in a bar. Victor, a Central Pennsylvania native, and Pelton, a native of the Philippines who came to the U.S. as a child in the 1970s, have lived in ...
– Billy Graham 54. “In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess.” ... 90. “There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.“ – Marva Collins 91. “Never grow a wishbone, daughter ...
Missed kiss. Donald Trump and Melania Trump shared an awkward moment that went viral at his presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.. Before he went up to the podium to take the oath of office inside ...
When Collins first published the paradelle, it was with the footnote "The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the eleventh century. It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas ...
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 ...