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Biographie de Billy Collins

Billy Collins is the author of twelve poetry collections, including Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Whale Day, and Horoscopes for the Dead. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of English at Lehman College, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001 to 2003, and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006.
In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives with his wife in Westchester County, NY.