Lovely evening at a Billy Collins reading at Strand. On whether or not he’ll ever write prose: “No.” … “No one asks prose writers if they’ll ever write poetry.” … “Poetry is a bird, prose is a potato.” PS – My blog is back up, after a several month struggle/confusion with hosting.
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Teaser Tuesday
Reading Myself To Sleep Billy Collins The house is all in darkness except for this corner bedroom where the lighthouse of a table lamp is guiding my eyes through the narrow channels of print, and the only movement in the night is the slight swirl of curtains, the easy lift and fall of my breathing,… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday