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Billy Collins on Reading Poetry Aloud

a few years ago Billy and Coleman Barks & i chatted a bit about reading aloud,,
seeing as that i know not even one of my poems from memory and thus always read from paper
we were all participating at the Block Island Poetry Festival, in Rhode Island

and all three of us are included in the Block Island 10 year anthology

Where Beach Meets Ocean



silent lotus

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a lifetime ago, Billy Collins and i had the same publisher (Applezaba Press in Long Beach) for early books of ours. mine was a really shitty novel called COMING HOME and a book of poems and i don't remember what Collins' book was called.
 
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