• 2001 National Poetry Series, for Year of Morphine

• "Dignity in the Home", poets.org

Anthologies

Criticism

Minneapolis poet Betsy Brown's book, Year of Morphines, preserves in verse her memory of two women who didn't survive breast cancer: her mother and sister. Cancer looms large in her family. Another sister has also been diagnosed with late stage breast cancer. Her father died of cancer, too.

Betsy Brown completed the "Year of Morphines" after eight years of writer's block. She resumed writing following the deaths of her mother and sister.