Tickets on sale now for renowned poet Billy Collins

Tickets are on sale now for An Evening with Billy Collins, presented by Verse Like Water: The visiting poet program of Central Lakes College. The event is at 7 p.m. on Sept. 7 in the Tornstrom Auditorium, Washington Education Center, Brainerd.

America’s most beloved poet will read, sign books and then greet the public at Prairie Bay Restaurant afterward. Tickets for Collins’ reading are available at www.clcmn.edu/vlw, in the CLC Bookstore and at the Crossing Arts Alliance.

Sponsored by Central Lakes College, The Minnesota Legacy Fund and Minnesota Public Radio.

This kicks off the seventh year of Verse Like Water programming at CLC. Poet Mary Szybist will be on campus on Oct. 15 and poet Peter Balakian will follow on Nov. 7.