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
author and her mother, mid-1980s
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.
Review in Your Impossible Voice
José Enrique Medina, an award-winning poet, playwright and literary critic, is a PEN America Emerging Voices fellow. “What Wolf has made is not a chronicle but a reckoning—with the country, with motherhood, and with the specific texture of loving someone in a place that keeps failing to protect them.”
Boston Literary Magazine
Feature in the April 2026 issue of the online journal Boston Literary Magazine from Big Table Publishing. An essay highlighting cool writing projects and recent books.