Elizabeth Socolow


Elizabeth Socolow is an American poet.

Life

She is a native of New York City, has taught at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Yale University, Barnard College, Wayne State University, 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.

Family

She was married to Robert H. Socolow, professor of engineering at Princeton University. They have two sons. David Jacob Socolow, was chief of staff for Representative Robert E. Andrews, of New Jersey, and is commissioner of labor for New Jersey.

Awards

Poetry

Elizabeth Socolow's Laughing at Gravity is concerned with heredity as it is written: history. Socolow descends into Isaac Newton's disastrous early life to come up with the cause celebre of his quest for laws of motion: "As we find luck from catastrophe if we are to live/from crisis he found law." The results, though psychologically predicable, are ingeniously developed in poetry.