Today's poem is
"Pastoral"
from Birmingham Poetry Review
Betty Adcock
is the author of six collections of poems
from LSU Press, notably Intervale: New and Selected
Poems (2001), winner of the Poet's Prize and a finalist for
the Lenore Marshall Prize, and Slantwise> (2008), winner of
LSU's Leslie Phillabaum Prize. In 2014, her chapbook Widow
Poems appeared from Jacar Press. Her work has appeared in
many anthologies, including three Pushcart Prize anthologies.
She has received the North Carolina Award for Literature,
the Texas Institute of Letters Prize, and the Hanes
Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She has held
fellowships from the NEA and the State of North Carolina, as
well as the Guggenheim Foundation. Kenan Writer in Residence
at Meredith College for many years, she was for ten
years a faculty member at the low-residency Warren Wilson
MFA Program for Writers. She has held several visiting
professorships, most recently at North Carolina State University.
She is completing her seventh full-length book.
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Two poems
"January"
Three poems
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