For someone you know with a soul, give Billy Collins' Picnic, Lightning or The Art of Drowning .

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In the spirit of that failed experiment, I reached out this week to Billy Collins, the U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003.

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Next week 24 poets including Kay Ryan, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Mark Strand and the brothers Matthew and Michael Dickman will converge in Newark, N.

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Speakers will include Kennedy, who is the honorary chairwoman of the Grand Central Centennial Committee, as well as actress Cynthia Nixon, former Mets star Keith Hernandez, former poet laureate Billy Collins and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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He has also worked in television and radio and most recently appeared alongside Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut Quartet.

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Collins worked on the adaptation with Gary Ross, who directed, and Billy Ray.

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