Favourite poet

I like a particular poet named Billy Collins. I like this poet as I think he is extraordinary from all the other poets. He can deeply express his feelings in the poems. He also was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Questions About Angels (1991), which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the National Poetry Series. This makes me curious on how good he is. I went to view his poems and found out that his poem is really very good and well written. This makes me want to find out more about him.
Thesis
I feel that Billy Collins so that people can know where he is in the poem, but not where he is going. It can tell the reader what he is feeling and expresses it in his poem. He does hide things in the poem. I think he is deeply troubled also as his writes poem like The Art of Drowning, The Trouble with Poetry
Biography of Billy Collins
Billy Collins was born in New York City to William and Katherine Collins. He attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and received a B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and received his M.A. and PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside. He was a student of Victorian Scholar and poet Robert Peters at Riverside. He is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he joined the faculty in 1968 and has taught for over thirty years. Billy Collins was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2001 and held the title until 2003. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of New York from 2004 until 2006. In 1992, he was chosen by the New York Public Library to serve as "Literary Lion". He has conducted summer poetry workshops in Ireland at University College Galway, and taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, and Lehman College, City University of New York. During the 1990s, Collins won five such prizes. The magazine also selected him as "Poet of the Year" in 1994. In 2005 Collins was the first annual recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry, bestowed by the Poetry Foundation (Poetry Magazine). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 1993, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Collins served as judge for the 2005 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.
Examples of his poems
Ballistics (2008)
The Art of Drowning
The Trouble with Poetry (2005)
References
http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/278
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Collins
http://brianstumbaugh.net/blog/2008/08/billy-collins-poetry-for-end-of-summer.html