Betsy Sholl

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Betsy Sholl


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Betsy Sholl has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Rough Cradle (Alice James Books, 2009). Don't Explain won the 1997 Felix Pollak Prize from the University of Wisconsin, and her book The Red Line won the 1991 AWP Prize for Poetry. Her chapbooks include Pick A Card, winner of the Maine Chapbook Competition in 1991, and Betsy Sholl: Greatest Hits, 1974-2004, Pudding House Publications. She was a founding member of Alice James Books and published three collections with them: Changing Faces, Appalachian Winter and Rooms Overhead. Among her awards are a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and two Maine Writer's Fellowships. Her work has been included in several anthologies, including Letters to America, Contemp ...more

Average rating: 4.16 · 209 ratings · 36 reviews · 24 distinct works
Rough Cradle

4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Otherwise Unseeable (Wiscon...

4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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Don't Explain (Volume 1997)...

4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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Late Psalm (Wisconsin Poetr...

3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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House of Sparrows: New and ...

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The Red Line (Pitt Poetry S...

3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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As If a Song Could Save You...

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Appalachian Winter

3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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Rooms Overhead

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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Pick a Card

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991
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“Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?”
Betsy Sholl, Coastal Bop

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