On 21st June, 2001, Billy Collins was appointed as the Library's new Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.In 2002, he was appointed to a second term, continuing through 2003.
He is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where he has taught for the past 30 years.
He is also a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and served as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library.
His books include:
Nine Horses
Sailing Alone Around the Room
Picnic Lightning
The Best Cigarette
The Art of Drowning
Questions About Angels
The Apple that Astonished Paris
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