Billy Collins/Walt Whitman

Studio 360 | Feb 17, 2011

Billy Collins just completed his term as Poet Laureate of the United States. Collins reads from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and talks about the challenge of writing poetry about big things like democracy. Produced by David Krasnow.

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