Billy Collins on defying convention, the reader’s indifference and making other writers jealous Short Takes• February 18, 2015 Billy Collins, who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, spoke today at the annual Symposium for Professional Wine Writers in Napa Valley. Tough gig, right? He may describe himself as “an amateur, a tyro” at wine, … Read more
