Billy Collins Colloquium
Billy Collins Colloquium
Collins, Billy
Reading Date: Thursday, March 8, 2001
- Introduction
- On the poetic process
- Response to the question "Who taught you how to write?"
- On adjective and adverb use
- On the elegaic tone of "Lying in Bed in the Dark I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona"
- On revision
- On writing exercises
- On reading
- Response to the question "How have your ideas about form changed over time?"
- Response to the question "Do you read your work to others to try it out?"
- On slam and performance poetry
- Response to the question "Do you feel you are still learning about writing?"
- On listening to music while writing
Introduction-4972
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by Alison Hawthorne Deming
On the poetic process-4973
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Annotation:
Includes "Lying in Bed in the Dark I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona," a poem composed in Tucson the morning of the colloquium, read here for the first time.
Annotation:
Collins, Billy. Nine Horses. New York: Random House, 2003.
Response to the question "Who taught you how to write?"-4974
On adjective and adverb use-4975
On the elegaic tone of "Lying in Bed in the Dark I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona"-4976
On revision-4977
On writing exercises-4978
On reading-4979
Response to the question "How have your ideas about form changed over time?"-4980
Response to the question "Do you read your work to others to try it out?"-4981
On slam and performance poetry-4982
Response to the question "Do you feel you are still learning about writing?"-4983
On listening to music while writing-4984
Reading Date: Thursday, March 8, 2001
Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Billy Collins discusses the poetic process. He begins by reading a poem he composed the morning of the colloquium, "Lying in Bed in the Dark I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona," which would later be published in Nine Horses.
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