US Poet Laureate to Attend UCF Book Festival

Posted: 10/30/2009

Billy Collins has agreed to attend the April 16/17, 2010 UCF Book Festival, in association with the Morgridge International Reading Center.

Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar, he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. His readings are usually standing room only, and his audience - enhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio - includes people of all backgrounds and age groups.

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