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Chester,
Pa.—Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins will speak at Widener University at
1 p.m. Monday, February 24 in Lathem Hall at 13th and Potter Streets
in Chester. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. To
reserve seating, call 610-499-4112
or e-mail cjcaporale@widener.edu.
Collins’
work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker,
The Paris Review, and The American Scholar. His last three
collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry, and his readings --
enhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio – are usually
standing room only.
Collins has
published many collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels; The
Art of Drowning; Picnic, Lightning; Taking Off Emily
Dickinson’s Clothes; Sailing Alone Around the Room: New &
Selected Poems; Nine Horses; The Trouble With Poetry
and Other Poems; Ballistics; She was Just Seventeen; Horoscopes
for the Dead; and most recently, Aimless Love.
Included
among the honors Collins has received are fellowships from the New York
Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the
Guggenheim Foundation. He has also been awarded the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the
Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, and the Levinson Prize — all
awarded by Poetry magazine. In October 2004, Collins was selected as the
inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Prize for Humor in
Poetry.
Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 and was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06. He is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and a senior distinguished fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College.
Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 and was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06. He is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and a senior distinguished fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College.
Collins’
appearance at Widener will be in advance of his sold-out evening appearance as
part of the Philadelphia Speakers Series presented by Widener at the Kimmel
Center in Philadelphia. Now in its tenth sold-out season, the Philadelphia
Speakers Series offers annual subscribers the opportunity to spend an evening
with Pulitzer and Nobel Peace Prize winners, world leaders, statesmen,
distinguished journalists, authors and other celebrated personalities. For more
information about the Philadelphia Speakers Series and the lineup of speakers
for the 2013-14 season, visit www.philadelphiaspeakersseries.org.
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