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Today's poem is "The Pencil"

from 32 Poems

Billy Collins's latest collection of poems is Ballistics (Random House, 2008).

Other poems by Billy Collins that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 21, 2008:   "(detail)" "It was getting late in the year..."
March 3, 2007:   "China" "I am an ant inside a blue bowl..."

Books by Billy Collins:

Other poems on the web by Billy Collins:
Six poems
Eleven poems (audio/animated)
Two poems
Two poems
"Irish poetry"
"The Golden Years"

Billy Collins's Home Page.

Billy Collins according to Wikipedia.

About 32 Poems:

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32 Poems Magazine * Texas Tech University * Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
Editor: John Poch & Deborah Ager

Other poems from 32 Poems in Verse Daily:
April 22, 2007:   "Thin Ice" by Randall Stiffler
November 30, 2005:   "Cod" by David Roderick
May 16, 2005:  "Bird Advice" Jill Alexander Essbaum
May 14, 2005:  "Parting Shot" Brendan O'Connor
May 3, 2005:  "Boat" Carol Frost
February 9, 2005:  "Fabulous Ones" by Jeffrey Thomson
February 8, 2005:  "Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings
February 7, 2005:  "Year of the Blues" by A. C. Schaffer
June 29, 2004:  "Bonfire" by Julie Funderburk
June 28, 2004:  "Ill-Made Almighty" by Heather McHugh
January 3, 2004:  "Father Countries" by Geoffrey Brock
December 31, 2003:  "Litany for Treetops" by C. J. Sage
July 15, 2003:  "The Trouble with Being Born" by Christina Davis
July 14, 2003:  "Outer Banks (II)" by Christian Wiman
July 9, 2003:  "Sonnet" by Kimberly Johnson

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