Billy Collins, a poet admired both by his peers and by thousands of people who seldom pick up a book of poetry, reads at 8 p.m. Friday at Jones Hall for Society for the Performing Arts. "I'm trying to ...

Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins joins host Peter O'Dowd to talk about his latest collection of poetry, "Dog Show," 25 poems accompanied by watercolors by Pamela Sztybel. shadow I have ever cast on ...

"The trouble with poetry," writes Billy Collins in the title poem of his most recent collection "is that it encourages the writing of more poetry." "How will it ever end?" he wonders, "unless the day ...

It’s been said that nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless they've had a dog. Billy Collins agrees, and he recently released his 12th volume of poetry, called “Dog Show." Senior arts ...