A three-year-old recites Billy Collins — another reminder that YouTube is still a vast repository of wonderfulness if you can only find it among all the dross. Fortunately, this one has gone viral. The mother says in a comment,

Billy Collins did see this and wrote a letter to my son and I. We feel very honored.

Thank you all for your kind comments. We are working on a few new poems I hope to have up very soon. If there are any suggestions as to poems you think might be good ones for him to memorize, let me know! I will consider them, if he likes them too.

Here’s Collins himself introducing and reading the poem, in a selection from Fora.TV: