Elizabeth S Wolf
“The main point of poetry is in fact to get us to see things in a new way, to awaken us to truths we didn’t notice before. The author succeeded in leaving me entirely transformed.” —Goodreads, 2019
Recent Publications
Parenting in the Age of Columbine
A powerful collection of braided poems. Each triplet includes a shooting incident; a personal slice of life; and a quote from an external source, such as Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care. In the tradition of “the personal is political,” Wolf shows how school shootings shape our lives and the way we move in the world.
Poem included in a powerful anthology Making Space For The Light: Documenting The Violence That Shapes The Lives of Women and Girls, a collection of survivors’ writing based on the Amherst Writers and Artists philosophy developed by Pat Schneider. Edited by Mary Simmerling, PhD.
Making Space For The Light
I Am From: Voices from the Mako House in Ghana
Based on a series of poetry workshops in the boarding house run by Mako Children’s Fund in the rural Volta region of Ghana. The poems collected here were written by 16 children ages 9-17 and their house parents, in response to American, Ghanaian, and Nigerian poems.