Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

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• Billy Collins:

  I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards

• Billy Collins:

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• Billy Collins:

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• Billy Collins:

  I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it ri