The Best Cigarette
Billy Collins
Billy Collins is perhaps the best-known living American poet today. His work is at once accessible, profound, and funny — qualities that might clash in the poems of others. Collins has long championed poetry as an essential part of our everyday lives, including his Poetry 180 project that (per the Library of Congress) makes “it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year” and his 1997 album The Best Cigarette that he released for free under a Creative Commons, noncommercial license. This week, Leigh and P. T. explore more of Collins’ poetic perspectives … and listen to the poet himself read his work.
The Best Cigarette © Billy Collins and Antonow Press, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) and Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), selected poems played but no changes made.
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- 12:06pm Nostalgia by Billy Collins on The Best Cigarette (Antonow Press), 2005
- 12:23pm Thesaurus by Billy Collins on The Best Cigarette (Antonow Press), 2005
- 12:42pm Sweet Talk by Billy Collins on The Best Cigarette (Antonow Press), 2005
- 12:49pm The Afterlife by Billy Collins on The Best Cigarette (Antonow Press), 2005
