I've Wondered How Billy Collins Does It

Ariadne explains.

Is your Collins poem done?

Who should we imitate next?

Walt Whitman? Emily Dickinson? Jim Lewis? Jane Hirshfield? James Tate? Louise Gluck? Bill Tremblay? Dorianne Laux? Russell Edson? Linnea Olson? Stephen Dunn? Carolyn Forche? Carl Phillips? Sylvia Plath? Ted Lardner? Sarah Stella Nelson? Donald Illich? Lisa Isaacson? Chris Spain? Mary Oliver? John Keats? Larissa Szporluk? George Kalamaras? Lynn Rose Carnrite? Lawrence Raab? Rich Furman? Jolie Elizabeth Clark? Fanny Howe? Chris Howell? Marie Howe? Joshua Clover? Laurel Dodge? Evan Oakley? Veronica Patterson? Tony Park? Lisa Zimmerman? George Heath? Arnold Kapushin? Marjorie Perloff? Jim Grabill? Linda Aldrich? Carl Dennis? Adrienne Rich? Donald D. Wise? Erika Lenz? Glenn Ingersoll? Marilyn Nelson? Langston Hughes? Alberto Rios? Marilyn Hacker? William Shakespeare? Laura Kasischke? William Matthews? Joy Harjo? Dan Coven? Jane Kenyon? Pablo Neruda? Ellen Bryant Voigt? Dean Young? Erin Belieu? Art Homer? Deidre Agnes Hand? Cesar Vallejo? Laura Mullen? Yusef Komunyakaa? Maxine Kumin? Michael Van Wallegen? Lia Purpura? Ted Kooser? Rita Dove? Ray Gonzales? Issa? Virgil Suarez? Cheryl Witt? Tim Siebles? Lynn Emanuel? Li Po? Margaret Gibson? Mark Doty? Jean Valentine? Robert Pinsky? Judy Allison? Wislawa Szymborska? Leslie Hodges? Sharon Olds? Bob Hass? Eliza Rotterman? Greg Randall? Jill Bergantz? Steve Masamilla? Sara Wallace? Primo Primavera? Zanni Schauffler? Christine Hume? Adam Zagajewski? Linda Lang? Lance Hug? Cheryl Martella? Keith Moore? Brenda Hillman? James Galvin? Claudia Rankine? Robert Haas? Rae Armantrout? C.D. Wright? Lyn Hejinian? Ranier Marie Rilke? Heather McHugh? Tony Hoagland? Matthea Harvey? Frank Bidart? Sylvia Jeanne Hollman? Pat Auker? Naomi Shihab Nye? Sherman Alexie? Beckian Fritz Goldberg? Franz Wright? Anna B. Hatchett?

Pick your favorite. Don't be limited by my suggestions. I'm sure we can follow Ariadne's suggestions/method to imitate almost anyone who has a recognizable voice.