UA Poetry Center
In celebration of the University of Arizona Poetry Center's 50th anniversary, former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poems, including work from the forthcoming collection Horoscopes for the Dead. He is joined by David Fitzsimmons, Howard Altmann, Jennifer Lee Carrell, and Ernesto Portillo, Jr., reading favorite poems by a variety of authors.
A film by Open Lens Productions
by University of Arizona President Robert N. Shelton
by Billy Collins
by David Fitzsimmons
Poem by Tao Lin, read by David Fitzsimmons.
Lin, Tao. this emotion was a little e-book. Bear Parade online chapbook.
Poem by Terence Winch, read by David Fitzsimmons.
Winch, Terence. "Social Security." Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry. Ed. Billy Collins. New York: Random House, 2003.
Poem by Charles Bukowski, read by David Fitzsimmons.
Bukowski, Charles. Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1996.
Poem by Natasha Trethewey, read by Howard Altmann.
Trethewey, Natasha. "Elegy." New England Review 2009-10: 6-7.
Poem by Wislawa Szymborska, read by Howard Altmann.
Szymborska, Wislawa. Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.
Poem by Howard Moss, read by Howard Altmann.
Moss, Howard. Finding Them Lost and Other Poems. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965.
Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, read by Jennifer Lee Carrell.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Selected Poems. New York: Penguin, 2007. (Originally published in 1842.)
Poem by Fanny Stearns Davis, read by Jennifer Lee Carrell.
Davis, Fanny Stearns. Myself and I. New York: Macmillan, 1918.
Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by Jennifer Lee Carrell.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. 4th ed. Eds. W. H. Gardner and N. H. MacKenzie. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. (Originally published in 1918.)
Poem by Gamaliel Rabago, read by Ernesto Portillo, Jr.
Rabago, Gamaliel. "El ángel ilegal/The Illegal Angel." A Decade of Young Corridistas. Trans. Wendy Burk. Tucson: The University of Arizona Poetry Center, 2010.
Poem by Alberto Álvaro Ríos, read by Ernesto Portillo, Jr.
Ríos, Alberto Álvaro. The Theater of Night. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005.
Poem by Alberto Álvaro Ríos, read by Ernesto Portillo, Jr.
Ríos, Alberto Álvaro. The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2002.
by Billy Collins
Poem by Billy Collins, read by Samuel Chelpka (as recorded on YouTube).
Collins, Billy. Nine Horses. New York: Random House, 2002.
Collins, Billy. Horoscopes for the Dead. New York: Random House, 2011.
Collins, Billy. Ballistics. New York: Random House, 2008.
Collins, Billy. Picnic, Lightning. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Collins, Billy. Ballistics. New York: Random House, 2008.
Collins, Billy. The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems. New York: Random House, 2005.
Collins, Billy. Ballistics. New York: Random House, 2008.
Collins, Billy. Ballistics. New York: Random House, 2008.
Collins, Billy. "Feedback." Weber: The Contemporary West Fall 2008: 15.
Collins, Billy. Questions About Angels. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991.
