It’s been said that nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless they've had a dog. Billy Collins agrees, and he ...

Billy Collins believes in the beauty of short poems. He says they show how poetry can squeeze a lot of meaning into tight spaces. His new collection of short poems is called "Musical Tables," and ...

There used to be a thing called a "poet's poet." It meant a poet whom other poets took special pleasure in reading, above and beyond general readers of poetry (back when there were some). The term has ...