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Author: Billy Collins

Billy Collins is the author of ten books of poetry including his collection of haiku, She Was Just Seventeen, Modern Haiku Press, 2006. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and a Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College.
Mid-winter evening, alone at the sushi bar? just me and this eel.       (from his haiku collection She Was Just Seventeen, Modern Haiku Press, 2006)
Posted on 27 February 201523 June 2015Author Billy CollinsCategories Issue 15.114 Comments on
Awake in the dark? so that is how rain sounds on a magnolia.     (Included in She Was Just Seventeen, Modern Haiku Press, 2006.)
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