Billy Collins

Jun 4, 2024 | thedig.substack.com | Billy Collins |Francine McKenna

It is early June, a breezy and sun-riddled Tuesdaythat would quickly be forgotten were it not for mywriting these few things down as I sit here empty-headedat the typewriter with a cup of coffee, light and sweet. Tuesday, June 4th, 1991by Billy CollinsBack from a week in Chicago for family activities and some eventful happenings. In the meantime, there’s been a lot of news about things I am interested in that I did not get to write about while focused on my family and staying alive.

Apr 30, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Simon Winchester |Philipp Blom |Billy Collins |Madeline Miller

The scene is a mysterious one, beguiling, thrilling, and, if you didn’t know better, perhaps even a bit menacing. According to the time-enhanced version of the story, it opens on an afternoon in the late fall of 1965, when without warning, a number of identical dark-green vans suddenly appear and sweep out from a parking lot in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. One by one they drive swiftly out onto the city streets. At first they huddle together as a convoy.