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Nashville Public Library Literary Award

2010 Literary Award Gala honoring



Billy Collins


"Billy Collins writes lovely poems...Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."

 John Updike, 2006 Literary Award Winner


Billy Collins has been praised as "The Most Popular Poet in America" by the New York Times. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. He is a regular guest on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio, and is the author of eight collections of poetry, including his latest, Ballistics, and the noted Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems.

About Billy Collins
Selected Poems


November 12  - Patrons Party
 November 13 -  Public Lecture
  November 13 - Literary Award Gala


Billy Collins is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and a s Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park institute of Rollins College. His works include, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, and Ballistics.

2010 Literary Award Events Co-Chairs
Kaye and Roy Elam & Juli and Ralph Mosley 


For more information:
Call 615-880-2610 or email galachairs@nplf.org

Proceeds benefit the Nashville Public Library Foundation
     Grand Reading Room
     Literary Award Gala

The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.

-Carl Sagan

photo by Peyton Hoge
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