September 10, 2018, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsNotebooks illuminate creative process behind Billy Collins’s poem “The Names” This story originally appeared January 21, 2014. Among the papers in the recently acquired Billy Collins archive are materials related to his poem “The Names,” which was written to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Interspersed throughout the poem are the names of 26 victims of the… read more
January 21, 2014, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsNotebooks illuminate creative process behind Billy Collins’s poem “The Names” Among the papers in the recently acquired Billy Collins archive are materials related to his poem “The Names,” which was written to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Interspersed throughout the poem are the names of 26 victims of the attacks, one name for each letter of… read more
