Billy Collins performs "Monday"

This performance comes from the very first Page Meets Stage pairing of Billy Collins and Taylor Mali on November 12, 2005, back when the series was called Page vs. Stage. The footage was shot and edited under the direction of Chad Anderson. A version of this poem was published in "The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems" (Random House, 2007) ISBN-13: 978-0375755217.

[@chriswasemann]

I first heard this on a prairie home companion ... always stuck with me

[@MOOSEHEADstadia2024]

Thank you.

[@mholdenmedia]

Thanks for putting this up, Taylor. It must have been a real honor to sit on that stage.

[@nfarley01]

So true... I was wondering if all the poets stared out of the windows as often as I do, and wondering why my poems had grown thinner since my view has become just the red brick of a courtyard and a teenager - staring at me through the opposite window.

[@dirkplankchest1796]

So good!

[@CleverDjembe]

@nfarley01
right.... stop talking poetry BS and get to the gym to pump some iron so you can become a MAN!!

[@aesthesia1160]

lol

[@hannafriesen5113]

I really hope after 8 years you're not still telling other men what to do