ZOOM- A Poetic Immersion with Billy Collins

This program will also be streamed to our Kingsley Room. Register here if you want to watch it at the library.

Join Southbury's poet laureate in a poet immersion celebrating the poetry of Billy Collins.  Bring you love of poetry, you love of Billy Collins, and your favorite poem or two or three to share.  Dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender, or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself.  Collins’s level of fame is almost unprecedented in the world of contemporary poetry: his readings regularly sell out, and he received a six-figure advance when he moved publishers in the late 1990s. He served two terms as the US poet laureate, from 2001-2003, was New York State poet laureate from 2004-2006, and is a regular guest on National Public Radio programs. In 2002, as US poet laureate, Collins was asked to write a poem commemorating the first anniversary of the fall of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on September 11. The reading was in front of a joint session of Congress held outside of Washington, DC. 

Come join in the craft, the humor, the wit, the brilliance of Billy Collin's poetry. 

Like all Southbury Public Library programs, this program is free to attend and open to anyone regardless of town of residency.  Registration is required.