Billy Collins spent his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate launching the Poetry 180 initiative to increase American high school students’ exposure to poetry. In today’s poem he remembers what it was like to be young (and not so young).
Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"
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Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"