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'Dog Show': Inside Billy Collins' poetry collection about man's best friend

WBUR
Published September 7, 2026 at 11:09 AM CDT

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We revisit Peter O’Dowd’s November 2025 conversation with former poet laureate Billy Collins about Collin’s latest collection of poetry “Dog Show.” The book contains 25 poems accompanied by watercolors by Pamela Sztybel.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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