Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 2005 Audiobook (Free)

With this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, stocks an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, NY Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all age range and backgrounds, and his readings are most often standing room just.

Performed by the author at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City, Billy Collins reads 24 of his poems, including “Dharma” –a spiritual yet humbling ode to man’s best about Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 2005 friend, “The Lanyard–an amusing recollection on the subject of the favorite, if not pointless, summer months camp pastime, and “Consolation” –a tongue-in-cheek reflection of the cancelled European trip, and the advantages of staying home instead. In addition to the poetry readings, Collins also spends a while in a short question and solution session where he displays on what makes good poetry, his very own process of achieving his audiences like a poet, the success of his Poetry 180 programs in schools countrywide, and an amusing sidebar on his memories growing up as an just child. Sometimes pensive and sardonic, amusing and subtly sarcastic, Billy Collins Live celebrates both the basic and the complicated in a vocabulary that appeals to all.