- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Bettie Sellers: Grief and Writing
- Creator:
- Sellers, Bettie
- Contributor to Resource:
- Video by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Date of Original:
- 2002/2006
- Subject:
- Arts--Georgia
Culture - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Towns County, Young Harris, 34.93315, -83.84712
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Bettie Sellers says that writing can help assuage grief.
Video recording of Georgia poet Bettie Sellers speaking about writing and grief. She begins by describing the grief of having "a family member who has wandered off into the never-never land of something like Alzheimer's." She contends that writing about the situation helps assuage the grief.
Sellers is best known for her poems about life in southern Appalachia. After earning a B.A. from LaGrange College in 1958 and an M.A. from the University of Georgia in 1966, she accepted a position as professor of English at Young Harris College. After thirty-two years of service to the college, Sellers retired in 1997. In 1992 she was named Poet of the Year by the American Pen Women, and in 1997 Governor Zell Miller named her Poet Laureate of Georgia, a position she held for three years. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/bettie-sellers-1926-2013/grief_t1/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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