Collins attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and received a B.A. She had the ability to recite verses on almost any subject, which she often did, cultivating in her young son a love of words. His mother was a nurse who stopped working to raise their only child. In his late seventies, Collins described his childhood to The Wall Street Journal. William was born to a large family from Ireland and Katherine was from Canada. As of 2018, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.īilly Collins was born in Manhattan to William and Katherine Collins and grew up in Queens and White Plains, New York. Collins was considered as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. Collins is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. In 2016, Collins retired from his position as a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York after teaching there almost 50 years. William James Collins, known as Billy Collins, (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. Billy Collins and Suzannah Gilman, 2015 PEN Gala, May 5, 2015, American Museum of Natural History © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center
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