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Birth Date and Place
March 22, 1941, Manhattan
Family members
Suzannah Gail Collins, Katherine Collins
Childhood and School Life
Collins attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and received a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963; he received his M.A.
Career
Collins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he joined the faculty in 1968.
Reason for Fame
Collins has been called "The most popular poet in America" by the New York Times.[
Later life/old age
Collins is on the editorial board at The Alaska Quarterly Review. Most recently he contributed to the 30th anniversary edition.[22][23] He is on the advisory bo
