Elizabeth Socolow is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

Life

She is a native of

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, has taught at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

Barnard College Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public university, public research university in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 375 programs. It is Michigan's third-l ...

, University of Michigan Dearborn. A member of U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative, She edited ''U.S. 1 Worksheets'', and is poetry editor of the ''Newsletter of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts''. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including ''Ploughshares'', ''Nimrod'', ''The Berkeley Poet's Cooperative'', ''Pudding'', ''Fellowship in Prayer'', and ''Ms. Magazine''. She lives in

Lawrenceville, New Jersey Lawrenceville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Lawrence Township in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Family

She was married to

Robert H. Socolow Robert Harry Socolow (born December 27, 1937; surname pronunciation sŏc‘-ŏ-lō) is an American environmental scientist, theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He was a fou ...

, professor of engineering at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. They have two sons. David Jacob Socolow, was chief of staff for Representative Robert E. Andrews, of

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, and is commissioner of labor for

Awards

* 1987 Barnard Women Poets Prize, for ''Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton''.

Works

Poetry

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Anthologies

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Translator

* reprint Ivy Press, 2000,

References

External links

"Princeton Public Library poet podcast 2008"

''Taking liberties'', Aryeh Neier
{{DEFAULTSORT:Socolow, Elizabeth Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey Rutgers University faculty Poets from New York (state) American women poets American women academics 21st-century American women