Billy Collins is the former U.S. Poet Laureate and one of my absolute favorite poets. I enjoy his poetry very much because i feel like he doesn’t take himself or his work too seriously. In addition, I find most of his poems to be a bit comical. To find out more about Billy Collins and his work you can go to this site or you can go to YouTube and type his name. Listen to some of his stuff and let me know how you like it.
Below is a Video of Billy Collins doing a reading of one of his more comical poems “Litany.” Not only do I like the poem, but I like how he came about this poem. He took the first two lines of another writer’s poem and made it the first two lines of his poem “Litany.” Watch the video and then give this technique a try!
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