Tuesday Video: Billy Collins

Former US Poet Laureate (2001-2003) Billy Collins has worked with a number of artists to animate several of his poems. The results are delightful. Here is Walking Across the Atlantic at YouTube, but there are Quicktime videos for ten others at Billy Collins Action Poetry.

You can also download the Creative Commons licensed The Best Cigarette — 33 of Collins' poems as read by him. Burn it to CD and give it away to your friends.