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An Evening with Billy Collins
April 11, 2018
7:00 pm
Burr & Burton Academy Gymnasium

Former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, author of The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, and other books, will speak and read from his work. No tickets required. Seating is first come, first served.
Underwriters: University of Vermont Humanities Center and Burr & Burton Academy
Statewide underwriters:
Image: Bill Hayes
For more information
- “Billy Collins on Being an Only Child, and Why Majoring in Poetry Is Like Majoring in Death,” The Wall Street Journal, 10/3/2016
- “Why Billy Collins Is America’s Most Popular Poet,” The Daily Beast, 10/22/2013
- Billy Collins page at The Poetry Foundation
- Billy Collins official site
“Two poems about what dogs think (probably),” TED.com: