This poet explores looking to the natural world for answers  — and is reminded it doesn’t always have them.
by Betty Adcock | Illustration by Jillian Ohl

Jillian Ohl is a North Carolina artist and illustrator, currently pursuing her MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Betty Adcock is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Slantwise(LSU Press, 2008) and Intervale: New and Selected Poems (LSU, 2002), which won the Poets’ Prize and was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize.