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William Ray Collins, Jr. (Nashville, 21 de Setembro de 1961 [1] – Antioch, 6 de Março de 1984), mais conhecido como Billy Collins Jr. foi um pugilista americano-irlandês. [2] Billy foi o boxeador desafiante que perdeu a luta contra Luis Resto após este usar luvas com
19 de mar. de 2020 · Promessas para o futuro do boxe, Billy Collins Jr e Luis Resto tinham, juntos, a primeira oportunidade de entrar na disputa para ser o próximo desafiante a um título mundial de boxe. Ambos os pugilistas, com menos de 30 anos, impressionavam pelo cartel de lutas na categoria dos pesos leve, e juntos, escalados pela Top Rank Boxing ...
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Dubbed the most popular poet in America by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself.
Collins was born in 1941 in New York City. He earned a BA from the College of the Holy Cross, and both an MA and PhD from the University of California-Riverside. In 1975 he co-founded the Mid-Atlantic Review with Michael Shannon. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Founda...
Collinss level of fame is almost unprecedented in the world of contemporary poetry: his readings regularly sell out, and he received a six-figure advance when he moved publishers in the late 1990s. He served two terms as the US Poet Laureate, from 2001-2003, was New York State Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, and is a regular guest on National Public ...
Though Collins published throughout the 1980s, it was his fourth book, Questions about Angels (1991), that propelled him into the literary spotlight. The collection was selected by poet Ed Hirsch for the 1990 National Poetry Series. A Publishers Weekly critic applauded the collections strange and wonderful [images] but believed that the poemswhich ...
Poet Richard Howard has said of Collins: He has a remarkably American voicethat one recognizes immediately as being of the moment and yet has real validity besides, reaching very far into what verse can do. Collins has described himself as reader conscious: I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who Im talking to, and I ...
Learn about Billy Collins, the most popular poet in America, who wrote witty and accessible poems about everyday life, reading, and poetry. Explore his biography, awards, books, and selected poems on the Poetry Foundation website.
Career. Collins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he joined the faculty in 1968. He is a founding Advisory Board member of the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies at Lehman College.
William James Collins ( Nova Iorque, 22 de março de 1941) é um poeta norte-americano. De 2001 a 2003, foi nomeado poeta laureado dos Estados Unidos e condecorado com o Literaly Lion da Biblioteca Pública de Nova Iorque (1992). [ 1][ 2][ 3][ 4][ 5] Publicações. Livros de poemas de Collins. Pokerface (Pasadena, Ca.: Kenmore Press, 1977)
Os lutadores. Billy Collins Jr. Conhecido também como Billy, o Irlandês, uma vez que sua família era da Irlanda, apesar de ter nascido em Nashville, no Tennessee, em 21 de Setembro de 1961, era casado com Andrea Collins-Nile, uma antiga namorada, que estava grávida e tinha 18 anos na época da luta.
26 de abr. de 2024 · Billy Collins (born March 22, 1941, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American poet whose uncommonly accessible verse—characterized by plain language, gentle humour, and an alert appreciation for the mundane—made him one of the most popular poets in the United States.
