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William A. William Ray Collins Jr ( 21 September 1961 – 6 March 1984) was an American professional boxer. ("Billy") Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet. Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong He served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35000 a year 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. The New York Public Library ( NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of America's most significant Research libraries. The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books

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William James "Billy" Collins was born in New York City on March 22, 1941 to William and Katherine Collins. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and received his M. The College of the Holy Cross is a prestigious exclusively undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester Massachusetts, A. and Ph. D in English from the University of California, Riverside [1]. The University of California Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public Research university and one of the 10 general

Collins is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he joined the faculty in 1968 and has taught for over thirty years. Lehman College is one of the constituent Colleges of the City University of New York, USA. Additionally, he is a founding Advisory Board member of the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies at Lehman College. The City University of New York (CUNY Acronym ˈkjuːni is the public University system of New York City. He also has taught and served as a visiting writer at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York. Sarah Lawrence is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States. Yonkers is the fourth largest city in the US State of New York (behind Rochester, Buffalo, and New York City) and the largest city in New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Collins was named U. S. Poet Laureate in 2001 and held the title until 2003. Collins served as Poet Laureate for the State of New York from 2004 until 2006.

As U. S. Poet Laureate, Collins read his poem "The Names" [2] at a special joint session of the United States Congress on September 6, 2002, held to remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks. The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

In 1997, he recorded The Best Cigarette (ISBN 0-9658873-0-8), a collection of 34 of his poems that would become a bestseller. In 2005, the CD was re-released under a Creative Commons license, allowing free, non-commercial distribution of the recording. Creative Commons (CC is a Non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share He also recorded two of his poems for the audio versions of Garrison Keillor's collection Good Poems (2002, ISBN 0-670-03126-7). Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American Author, Storyteller, Humorist, In 2005, he recorded "Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space" in New York City. Collins was introduced by the actor, Bill Murray.

Over the years, Poetry has awarded him several prizes in recognition of poems they publish. Poetry, published in Chicago Illinois since 1912 is one of the leading monthly Poetry journals in the English-speaking world During the 1990s, Collins won five such prizes. The magazine also selected him as "Poet of the Year" in 1994. The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books In 2005 Collins was the first annual recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry, bestowed by the Poetry Foundation (Poetry Magazine). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 1993, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual student scholar for the purpose of furthering their Education The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who

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Preceded by
Stanley Kunitz		 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
2001-2003		 Succeeded by
Louise Glück
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