Billy Collins - From Words to Animations

Check out this poet Billy Collins.   He was appointed the United States Poet Laureate from 2001 until 2003.  I was reminded of him after our class discussion with Amanda Lyons on Friday about portraying concepts as images because he consented to the animation of some of his poems.  Here is his TED talk, including examples of the animated poetry.  My favorite poem is the one he reads at the end of the talk about his 17-year old daughter.