The new poet laureate of the United States, Billy Collins, has held a day job for the last three decades, teaching college students in New York City how to practice his craft. "I ask them to take a poem," he says, in a poem called "Introduction to Poetry."
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out or walk inside a poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.
Walk inside a poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. We'll explore the poetry of Billy Collins and what it means to be poet laureate in time of war
