This page, part of the Public Broadcasting Service Web site, offers a transcription of Elizabeth Farnsworth's interview with Virginia Hamilton Adair. Click here to read about this poet's life, craft, and the reception of her first published book, Ants on the Melon, at age 83.

An Interview with Virginia Hamilton Adair
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In this interview, originally published in Rattle magazine, Adair discusses Ants on the Melon, her daily writing ritual, her experiences as a poetry teacher, and her blindness from glaucoma.

BIOGRAPHY
Virginia Hamilton Adair (b. 1913) has written poetry for much of her life, and a number of her poems have appeared in magazines over the years. But she was eighty-three years old when she published her first book of poetry, Ants on the Melon (1996). Although she has been blind for several years, Adair continues to write. Her latest collection of poems is Belief and Blasphemies (1998).