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Billy Collins, the Library's newly named Poet Laureate Consultant
in Poetry for 2001-2002, opened this year's evening literary series with
a reading from his work on Thursday, December 6, 2001.
Billy Collins' books of poetry include a volume of new and selected poems,
Sailing Alone Around the Room, which was published by Random House in
September; Picnic, Lightning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998); The
Art of Drowning (1995), which was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist;
Questions About Angels (1991), a National Poetry Series selection by Edward
Hirsch; The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988); Video Poems (1980); and
Pokerface (1977).
The poetry and literature reading series at the Library of Congress is
the oldest in the Washington area, and among the oldest in the United
States. This annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures,
symposia, and occasional dramatic performances began in the 1940s and
has been almost exclusively supported since 1951. The Poetry and Literature
Center administers the series and is the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant
in Poetry.
