Billy Collins and 'Poetry on Record'

Fresh Air

Published May 17, 2006 at 5:00 AM HST

In the first part of a two-part interview, former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins guides us through the new spoken-word four-CD box set Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006.

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