PagineBilly Collins writes witty, welcoming poems about everyday life and was US Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, when he started Poetry 180, a poem for every day of the school year.
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The Art of Drowning (1995), Sailing Alone Around the Room (2001), Aimless Love (2013).