Billy Collins returns to Featherstone Center for the Arts on Thursday, Sept. 8 for a poetry reading.

Mr. Collins is the former U.S. poet laureate and has been a frequent reader at Featherstone, starting in 2007 and returning on a biennial basis ever since. He will also hold a poetry workshop on Sept. 9.

The reading on Thursday takes place in the Francine Kelly Gallery at 6:30 p.m.; the poetry workshop is from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday.

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