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Autobiographical Sketch: Bettie Anne Doebler I have written poetry since I first began to imitate nursery rhymes in grade school in North Carolina. After high school, I went to college at Duke University and became an English major and student of the distinguished writing teacher William Blackburn. I received an Angier Duke Fellowship to Duke graduate school and was set on my way to University teaching of poetry and drama in early modern England. I married a fellow student and we both went directly to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for our Ph.D.s, after which we taught for thirty some years at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, and Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. In 1996 I retired from teaching at ASU and devoted most of my time to writing poetry. Most of my published writing during the years of my teaching career was literary criticism, including both essays in learned journals and two major critical studies The Quickening of the Seed: Death in the Sermons of John Donne,1974, and Rooted Sorrow: Dying in Early Modern England, 1994. I also published poems in small journals, including The New England Review and Passages North. In the last ten years I have co-edited and co-written with a colleague in history Introductions to a series of Funeral Sermons Published for Women between 1600 and 1630, 7vols. (Ann Arbor: Scholars Facsimiles &Reprints). The eighth volume is due out in early Fall. In 2001 thirty of my poems appeared in The Book of the Mermaid, co-authored with two other poets, Ralph Slotten and Jon Thiem, and in 2003 some fifty of my poems in a similar anthology, Nine Waves. I am looking forward to the publication in 2007 of a fine press edition of twenty-six of my other poems by Karla Elling, editor of the Mummy Mountain Press. I have also had published a number of (approximately twelve) poems with The Awakenings Review during 2002, and several other poems in an English journal from the Southern counties in England, South, and in Poetic Realm . I have read my poems in several venues: Borders in Phoenix, Barnes & Noble in Scottsdale, Changing Hands in Tempe, AZ, and Barnes&Noble in Greenville, North Carolina.; in 2005 at Changing Hands. Two of my poems appeared in East of Auden, published in Oxford, England, summer, 2003. I was Visiting Professor of English 2004-2005 at Grand Canyon University. My poem “Outside the Gate” was published by the Anglican Theological Review in May of 2006.. Recently I received honorable mention in a chapbook contest by Concrete Wolf, Amherst, NH. In the fall of 2004 I read poems at an Emeritus presentation in the English Department, Arizona State Unversity, and in the summer of 2005 I read several poems at an Inauguration of the Emeritus College, and I also read poems at the May, 2006 Symposium of the Emeritus College. In Oxford I did research in the fall of 2005 on the eighth volume of Funeral Sermons Published for Women, 1601-1630, which I hope will be published this fall, 2006. I shall also be teaching several courses in the interdisciplinary studies program in the fall in the University College at ASU.
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