Betty Adcock. Courtesy North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
Elizabeth "Betty" Sharp Adcock (born 1938) is an American poet.[1]
Life[]
The daughter of a landowner and a schoolteacher, Adcock grew up in San Augustine, Texas, a small farming community. The landscape of the area, a mix of West and Deep South, influenced her work. She moved to North Carolina after her marriage to Donald Adcock. The two have a daughter, Sylvia.
Adcock is primarily self-taught. She has no degrees,[2] though she attended Texas Tech University, Goddard College, and North Carolina State University.[3] She studied and wrote poetry for more than 10 years while working in the business world. After her 1st book was published, she was awarded a teaching residency at Duke University. Other teaching positions followed, most notably her ongoing position as Writer in Residence at Meredith College, which she held until 2006.[2]
She has served as a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in Asheville, NC and in the Writer-in-Residence program at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. She has also held residencies at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Kalamazoo College, and Duke University, and has twice served as Visiting Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.[4]
Recognition[]
In 2014, Adcock was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.[5]
Awards[]
Adcock's awards include the following:[2]
- State of North Carolina Artist Fellowship in Poetry, 1988
- North Carolina Award for Literature, 1996
- Texas Institute of Letters Prize, 1996
- Sam Ragan Award in Fine Arts, 1998
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002
- Poets' Prize, 2003
- Two Pushcart Prizes
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Walking Out: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1975.
- Nettles: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
- Beholdings: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
- The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems (with Michael McFee et al). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.[1]
- The Difficult Wheel: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
- Intervale: New and selected poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
- Slantwise: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
- Widow Poems. Durham, NC : Jacar Press, 2014.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[1]
Sylvia Adcock Reads Betty Adcock
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Adcock, Elizabeth Sharp, North Carolina Literary Map, State Library of North Carolina. Web, Dec. 19, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "BettyAdcock.com Bio". http://bettyadcock.com/bio.html. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- ↑ "NC Award Profile". http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ncawards/nca2.asp?bn=badcock. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
- ↑ "Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers". http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~mfa/newwebsite/W2008fac.php. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- ↑ Betty Adcock, North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Web, Aug. 21, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Betty Adcock: two poems in the Cortland Review.
- "Digression on the Nuclear Age" at The Hinge Poem
- Betty Adcock b. 1938 at the Poetry Foundation.
- About
- Adcock, Elizabeth Sharp at the North Carolina Literary Map, State Library of North Carolina.
- Betty Adcock at the Fellowship of Southern Writers
- Betty Adcock at the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
- Betty Adcock Official website.
- "Poetry is a Way of Seeing: A conversation with Betty Adcock" at Cerise Press
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