The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts

Billy Collins

Presented by U of L Kentucky Author Forum

Because of the tremendous response to this event, Kentucky Author Forum has arranged for additional general seating in the Kentucky Show! Theatre at The Kentucky Center.  The interview will be shown there on a wide screen, with live audio feed from the Bomhard Theatre, courtesy of KET. To purchase tickets for the screening, click here.

Billy Collins - interviewed by Garrison Keillor  *Limit 4 tickets per order*

Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003. He is the author of nine volumes of poetry, and his newest collection of poems, Horoscopes for the Dead, will be published in spring 2011. Collins writes with tenderness and humor, about quotidian things which are universally relevant; no American poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine such high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal.

Garrison Keillor is the host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac, heard on public radio stations across the country. He is the author of more than a dozen books, and was the featured author at Kentucky Author Forum in November, 2002. This spring, Keillor, all-around arbiter of fine American poetry and editor of Good Poems and Good Poems for Hard Times, will introduce another exceptional collection in Good Poems, American Places.

5:00 PM - Carmichael's Book Sale - Wine & Cheese provided by Brown-Forman
6:00 PM - Interview in the Bomhard Theater
7:00 PM - Audience Q & A
A $17 ticket includes the above three events.

8:15 PM - Dinner in honor of the Author will take place on the 25^th floor of Humana
A $100 package ticket includes above three events plus dinner
($35 deductible, with proceeds to nonprofit Kentucky Author Forum)