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CAREER Collins is a distinguished Professor of English at on September 6 , 2002 , held to Remember The Victims Of The 9/11 Attacks . In 1997, he recorded ''The Best Cigarette'' (ISBN 0965887308), a collection of 33 of his poems that would become a bestseller. In 2005, the CD's copyright was changed to a Creative Commons license allowing free, non-commercial distribution of the recording. He also recorded two of his poems for the audio versions of Garrison Keillor 's collection ''Good Poems'' (2002, ISBN 0670031267). Over the years, ''. He has received Fellowship s from the National Endowment For The Arts , the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 1993 , and the New York Foundation For The Arts . WORK Despite being often compared to Robert Frost , Collins' poetry is marked by a rejection of restrictive forms such as the Sonnet and Villanelle . For instance, his poem "Sonnet" begins "All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now", and continues in this vein; the "sonnet" is fourteen lines, but does not rhyme and is not, until the final line, Iambic Pentameter . He invented the poetic form the Paradelle as a hoax to parody the villanelle, using his mock "Paradelle for Susan"; the paradelle is emblematic of his rejection of formal poetry. In his work, Collins has also spoken out against obtuse constructions and over-interpretation of poems. Most of Collins work is clear and accessible to lay readers and occasionally critical of poets writing only for other poets or academics. Collins shares this outlook with his successor as poet laureate American poet Ted Kooser . As poet laureate, Collins published a collection of poems called ''Poetry 180'', a collection of 180 poems (one for each day of the typical school year) that he considers accessible to the majority of readers. Collins now has two ''Poetry 180'' collections, the first of which he opens with his own poem "Introduction to Poetry", a poem that encourages enjoyment of poetry and discourages interpretation that would "tie the poem to a chair with rope/ and torture a confession out of it" or join those who "begin beating it with a hose/ to find out what it really means." {Link without Title} QUOTATIONS
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