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Billy Collins - Musical Tables

Published January 10, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins has taken up the unique poetic style of the “small poem” and has gathered more than 125 of his own into a beautiful new collection entitled “Musical Tables.”

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