Midway through a conversation with poet Billy Collins, talk turns to the topic of inspiration, and how a writer recognizes the small moments around which one might build a poem. “It’s a good question ...

T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to be National Poetry Month. Many schoolchildren will be admonished to pay attention to poetry these next few weeks - read, analyze, ...

All children are natural poets, but “unfortunately, our poetry instincts often get beaten out of us by bad education and also by that harrowing phenomenon called adolescence,” says Billy Collins, in ...

Famed poet Billy Collins had a packed auditorium in Rockefeller Hall last night sitting on his every word with a reading of Ballistics –– his latest poetry collection –– as well as some of his earlier ...

There used to be a thing called a "poet's poet." It meant a poet whom other poets took special pleasure in reading, above and beyond general readers of poetry (back when there were some). The term has ...