
Billy Collins
Author · 24 books
William A. ("Billy") Collins is an American poet. He served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. In his home state, Collins has been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004.
Series
Books

The Apple that Astonished Paris
1988

Billy Collins Live
A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 2005
2005

Nine Horses
2002

She Was Just Seventeen
2006

Questions About Angels
1991

The Best Cigarette
1997

Whale Day
And Other Poems
2020

Water, Water
Poems
2024

Good Poems for Hard Times
2005

The Art of Drowning
1995

Voyage
2014

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
2000

Musical Tables
Poems
2022

O&S (Oranges & Sardines) - Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2009
2008

Little Things
An Anthology of Poetry
2013

Daddy's Little Boy
2004

Aimless Love
New and Selected Poems
2013

Horoscopes for the Dead
2011

Sailing Alone Around the Room
New and Selected Poems
2001

Picnic, Lightning
1998

Dear Editor
Poems
2002

The Rain in Portugal
2016

The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
2005

Ballistics
2008