Billy Collins reads to teachers

Billy Collins recently spoke to more than 1,400 teachers at the General Session of the 2009 National Writing Project Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Collins read the following poems: "A Portrait of the Reader with a Bowl of Cereal," "Grave," "Palermo," "Simile," "Oh, My God," "Monday," "The Trouble with Poetry," "Litany," "Migrane" or "Hangover," "Hippos on Holiday," "Schoolsville," "The Golden Years," and "On Turning Ten."