Billy Collins
# Billy Collins

William James Collins (Nova Iorque, 22 de março de 1941) é um poeta norte-americano. De 2001 a 2003, foi nomeado poeta laureado dos Estados Unidos e condecorado com o Literaly Lion da Biblioteca Pública de Nova Iorque (1992).

## Publicações
### Livros de poemas de Collins

* Pokerface (Pasadena, Ca.: Kenmore Press, 1977)
* Video Poems (Long Beach, Ca.: Applezaba Press, 1980)
* The Apple that Astonished Paris: Poems (Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, 1988)
* Questions about Angels: Poems (Nova York: Quill/William Morrow, 1991)
* The Art of Drowning (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995)
* Picnic, Lightning (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998)
* Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems (London: Picador, 2000)
* Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Nova York: Random House, 2001)
* Nine Horses: Poems (Nova York: Random House, 2002)
* The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Nova York: Random House, 2005)
* She Was Just Seventeen (Modern Haiku Press, 2006)
* Ballistics: Poems (Nova York: Random House, 2006)
* Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems (Nova York, Random House, 2011)
* Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Nova York: Random House, 2013)
* Voyage (Piermont, N.H.: Bunker Hill Publishing, 2014)
* The Rain in Portugal: Poems (Nova York: Random House, 2016)
* Whale Day: and other Poems (Nova York: Random House, 2020)
* Musical Tables: Poems (Nova York: Random House, 2022)

### Gravações de som de Collins

* Best cigarette [gravação de som] / Billy Collins (Chicago: Small Good, 1993)

### Livros editados ou introduzidos por Collins

* Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry: selecionado e com introdução de Billy Collins (Nova York: Random House, 2003)
* Leaves of grass: Walt Whitman; com um novo prefácio de Billy Collins; uma introdução de Gay Wilson Allen; e um posfácio de Peter Davison (Nova York: Signet Classics, 2005)
* 180 more: extraordinary poems for every day: selecionados e com introdução de Billy Collins (Nova York: Random House, 2005)
* Bright wings: an illustrated anthology of poems about birds: editado por Billy Collins; pinturas de David Allen Sibley (Nova York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
* Poets laureate anthology: editada e com introduções de Elizabeth Hun Schmidt; prefácio de Billy Collins (Nova York: Norton, 2010)
* Best of poetry in motion: celebrating twenty-five years on subways and buses / editado por Alice Quinn; prefácio de Billy Collins (Nova York: Norton, 2017)

### Poemas individuais de Collins em revistas

| Título | Ano | Primeira publicação |
| Tanager | 2013 | Collins, Billy (21 de outubro de 2013). «Tanager». The New Yorker. 89 (33). 42 páginas |
| Downpour | 2019 | Collins, Billy (18 de novembro de 2019). «Downpour». The New Yorker. 95 (36): 66–67 |
| Days of teen-age glory | 2021 | Collins, Billy (22 de março de 2021). «Days of teen-age glory». The New Yorker. 97 (5): 40–41 |