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Apr 4, 2023

"I've grown old --

now my own name

rings a bell." --Billy Collins

Billy Collins on the Beauty of Short Poems

Says former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, "Whenever I pick up a new book of poems, I flip through the pages looking for small ones. Just as I might have trust in an abstract painter more if I knew he or she could draw a credible chicken, I have faith in poets who can go short." Short poems take center stage in his new collection, Musical Tables. More in this interview with NPR.