![]() ![]() ![]() His mother, Katherine Collins, was a nurse who stopped working to raise the couple's only child. ![]() William was born to a large family from Ireland and Katherine was from Canada. As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.Ĭollins was born in Manhattan to William and Katherine Collins and grew up in Queens and White Plains. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning University of California, Riverside (MA, PhD) Professor, poet, book author, anthologist ![]()
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