Billy Collins on NPR’s Fresh Air

Filed under: Articles, Essays — Hari Bhajan at 5:04 pm on Friday, June 2, 2006

Last week, while I was driving (really the only time I listen to the radio) I heard Billy Collins being interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. He was talking about a new recording of poets reading their poetry called “Poetry on Record. ” It’s the first half of a two-part series and there are readings by W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Robert Hayden, Muriel Rukeyser. You can hear it on NPR at www.npr.org. Go to Fresh Air, Previous Shows for Weds, May 17th. You can purchase the recording at www.amazon.com.

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Comment by Mary Fitz

June 7, 2006 @ 11:08 pm

I hear Part II of the Billy Collins interview tonight.
He explained his humorous approach: because in poetry, there is a danger of taking oneself way, way too seriously.
The poems read by Robt. Frost (that old Yankee) and Galway Kinnell (that Earth Father) were sublime.

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