Betsy Snow Hickok

Betsy Hickok, a 47-year-old writer and editor from Coraville, was also undecided.
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Hickok said Edwards would be more seasoned than Obama in dealing with entrenched Washington interests.

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Betsy Hickok, Iowa City

Beyond that, however, writer Betsy Snow Hickok seeks to change the focus on the violent deaths of the victims to remembering the fullness of their lives, and their continued spiritual existence.Her poem, In the Telling, reminds us of Greek myths in which "things leave and are returned to us."

Dan Knight on piano, Bob Dunn on guitar, singer Betsy Hickok, Dick Kriz on bass and drummer Nic George.

A note from Betsy Hickok, writer, poet andsinger, Iowa City
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Betsy Snow Hickok was born in Albany, New York in 1960.She grew up outside of San Francisco, California, until she was eight, then she and her older siblings moved back to Brattleboro, Vermont with their mother.Both music and writing have been important parts of her life from a young age.

She earned a B.A. in English from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, and an M.F.A. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.She has had various teaching and writing positions, and currently works as a communications writer for the University of Iowa Foundation.She lives with her partner in a farmhouse near Iowa City.

She is a published poet and writer, focusing now in her own work mostly on poetry.She writes in the early hours most mornings.

Theresa Black, Betsy Hickok, Tom Langdon, Jill Michka
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Nic Arp, Betsy Hickok, Leah Klevar, Peter Ylvisaker, Danette Angerer, Theresa Black, Richard Blazek, Connie Driscoll-Wicke, Tom Langdon, Jill Michka
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Susan Shullaw, Leah Klevar, Nic Arp, Betsy Hickok, Forrest Myer, Theresa Black, Dick Blazek, Connie Driscoll-Wicke, Dannette Angerer, Tom Langdon, Jill Michka, Bette Marshall

Betsy Snow Hickok

"I wrote this poem in a brief window of time following the event--just two days later--when I was still numb enough to be able to put words on paper.I never start a poem with a clear idea of where it will go, but I remember feeling a desire to tranform the images from that day for the sake of the victims.I was thinking that if I had been among them, I would want people to remember me in life and not in the brief moment of my death.

"After this poem, I wasn't able to write for a month.The event felt too huge to write about, and other topics seemed too small.
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- Betsy Snow Hickok

Read In the Telling

Betsy is an Iowa City writer who has published poems in The Massachusetts Review, The New Virginia Review, and an anthology of Iowa poets, Voices on the Landscape.Her e-mail address is betsy-hickok@uiowa.edu.

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Singer Betsy Hickok and pianist Dan Knight will perform classic tunes from the 1940s era.