Billy Collins

Billy Collins is an American poet who served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. His books include Sailing Alone Around the Room, a new and selected collection, along with Picnic, Lightning, Aimless Love, and Questions About Angels. Collins was a distinguished professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York before retiring in 2016, and he also gathered essays in The Rain in Portugal and Whale Day.