After valiant efforts and many conversation with his agent, we have Billy Collins making a guest appearance on this blog, reading his poetry. Found these on YouTube. Enjoy.
"Noted for their intelligent humor, accessibility and observations on daily life, Collins' popular poems come alive further in a series of animated poems produced by JWT-NY."
The Best Cigarette (This one's the pick of the bunch, IMO. Watch this even if you don't have time for the others.)
The Dead
Walking Across the Atlantic
Some Days
Now and Then
Hunger
Budapest
Forgetfulness
Three more, by ComedyFilm, who, unfortunately, does not allow embedding. These aren't animations. Just slide shows and some background sounds.
And Collins introduces the Best American Poetry event at the New School 9/21/06 and mentions the controversy surrounding the publication. (Very fuzzy video shot by someone in the audience who wasn't in a good seat. But the audio's clear.)
And since we're ODing on Collins, here are some more links from emails that, erm, may have, um, been sent to you, in a manner of speaking, by me.
All 33 tracks are available for FREE DOWNLOAD. Internet Archive.(whole album or track by track) Download.com. (song by song)
You can download, share these, burn these, give these for non-commerical puposes (you can't make money off it). For the full details read the creative commons non-commerical use license here.
1 Noble Readers have commented.
I don't know what you found on those links but most of the links say 'not found'. i suppose you might call that sheer poetry.
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