http://bhamweekly.com/birmingham/articles.sec-9-1-.html Billy Collins is a poet. Billy Collins is also a rock star, perhaps the most popular serious poet in America since Robert Frost. A former two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, he has appeared often on publi]]> The kids dash the last 40 or so yards across the big clearing, having caught sight of the salt-and-pepper-haired man sitting in a folding metal chair under a stand of trees, tuning an acoustic guitar.]]> Back in 1996, the Academy of American Poets led the initiative to establish April as a monthlong celebration of poets and poetry — to increase the presence and accessibility of poetry in our culture b]]>