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4/3/00

POET BILLY COLLINS TO SPEAK AT SLU

CANTON -- Poet Billy Collins will read from his work in an 
appearance at St. Lawrence University on Wednesday, April 12, 
at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event, 
the Sandra M. Nelson Memorial Poetry Reading and part of the 
St. Lawrence Writers Series, is open to the public, free of charge.
	Collins is the author of five books of poetry, the most 
recent of which is The Art of Drowning. His collection Questions 
About Angels won the 1990 National Poetry Series Competition, 
and he has received numerous other prizes for his work, including 
fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National 
Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Collins' 
work has been featured in periodicals such as Poetry, The American 
Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Harper's and The New Yorker, 
and was included in The Best American Poetry anthology for 1992 
and 1993. He is poet-in-residence at the Burren College of Art in 
Ireland and professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY).

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