All posts in Billy Collins

What are you?

7 Nov 2014

Today we read “Woman” by Nikki Giovanni and “Litany” by Billy Collins, two very different poems that employ a similar device: comparing people to seemingly unrelated things, like places, inanimate objects and elements of […]

First Day at McPherson

21 Dec 2013

I was pleased and excited to be back at one of my old haunts, McPherson School. I’ll be working in three 6th-grade classrooms, collaborating with the very welcoming Ms. Bielenda. In “Litany” by Billy […]

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