Billy Collins & Cynthia Sears

Poet Billy Collins in conversation with Cynthia Sears

Beloved Cynthia Sears joins the January 29 episode of the Bainbridge Pod Accomplice to talk poetry with former two-time US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, as well as share tales of their long friendship and Billy’s connections to Bainbridge and especially BPA. 

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Billy Collins’s newest collection, “Whale Day” brings together more than fifty poems and showcases his deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets.

Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in PortugalAimless LoveHoroscopes for the DeadBallisticsThe Trouble with PoetryNine HorsesSailing Alone Around the RoomQuestions About AngelsThe Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah. Learn more at billycollinspoetry.com. Headshot courtesy of Suzannah Gilman.


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Episode Premieres

January 29, 2021


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