CANCELLED: Poetry off the Shelf: Billy Collins
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free admission, register in advance here
At 30 minutes before event start, guests with Eventbrite tickets will have priority entry to the performance space on a first-come, first-served basis. At 15 minutes prior to event start, the performance space is open to all guests. Seating capacity is limited. Eventbrite reservations do not guarantee entry or reserved seating.
Join us for a reading with former US poet laureate Billy Collins. He has published 12 collections of poetry, including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, and The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems. His awards include an Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, a Hall-Kenyon Prize in American Poetry, and a Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. He is the recipient of an Oscar Blumenthal Prize, a Bess Hokin Prize, a Frederick Bock Prize, and a Levinson Prize—all awarded by Poetry magazine—as well as the Poetry Foundation’s inaugural Mark Twain Poetry Award, recognizing a poet’s contribution to humor in American poetry.