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Poet Elizabeth Jacobson

Poet Elizabeth Jacobson

 

 

Introduction to Elizabeth Jacobson.   1:25 min.  Interview:  Raymond Elman.  Post-Production:  Lee Skye.  Music: Joseph Elguera,  Recorded via Zoom:  4/18/2024, Miami.

 

ELIZABETH JACOBSON was the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Academy of American Poets 2020 Laureate Fellow. Her third collection of poems, “There are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral,” will be published in 2025 by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. Her other books include, “Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air,” winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize (FVE/Parlor Press, 2019) and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book; Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books, 2012); two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, Are the Children Make Believe? and A Brown Stone; and Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away, Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic (Axle Books, 2021). She is a founding director of Poetry Pollinators, an eco-poetry public art initiative dedicated to empowering poetry, education and the environment in support of declining native bee populations. Elizabeth’s work has been sustained with grants and residencies by literary organizations including eight consecutive grants from The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, New Mexico Arts, Academy of American Poets, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Mable Dodge Luhan House, Herekeke and East Hill. Elizabeth is a reviews editor for the on-line magazine Terrain.org. She lived part-time in Miami Beach for ten years and now divides her time between Lake Worth Beach, Florida and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The videos below were recorded via Zoom, are organized by Success Factor, and run between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.

 

 

DEVELOP A VOICE:   1:59 min.

You said you started writing poetry at a very young age to try and understand your feelings. Was there an event that triggered that response?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   1:20 min.

Where did you grow up and what was your first awareness of art of any discipline?

 

OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED:   2:25 min.

Were you an avid reader when you were a child?

 

CRITICAL THINKING:   0:35 sec.

You grew up during the Women’s Movement.

 

CRITICAL THINKING:   0:48 sec.

You grew up in Westchester County. Did you identify with John Updike’s “Rabbit” books?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   2:43 min.

Because I spent my whole adult life on the beaches of Outer Cape Cod, I recognize the image on the wall behind you as a skate egg case. Did you make the image?

 

DEVELOP A VOICE:    1:46 min.

When you went to college, did you already know that you wanted to become a writer?

 

VALUES FIRST-RATE EDUCATION:   1:22 min.

Did you go from Rollins College to Columbia University?

 

SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES:   4:09 min.

Why did you move to New Mexico?

 

DEVELOP A VOICE:   2:30 min.

Tell us about your evolution as a poet.

 

DEVELOP A VOICE:   2:06 min.

How did moving to the Southwest impact your poetry?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   1:36 min.

Georgia O’Keefe lived in New Mexico after she left New York. Did her artwork inspire you?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   5:01 min.

You said that the Holocaust influenced some of your poetry. How so?

 

THERE ARE AS MANY SONGS IN THE WORLD AS BRANCHES OF CORAL:   3:47 min.

THERE ARE AS MANY SONGS IN THE WORLD AS BRANCHES OF CORAL

 

FOR WHOM DO YOU BATHE AND MAKE YOURSELF BEAUTIFUL?:   1:50 min.

FOR WHOM DO YOU BATHE AND MAKE YOURSELF BEAUTIFUL?

 

SERENDIPITY:   1:20 min.

How much time have you spent in South Florida?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   3:39 min.

Who are some of the poets who have influenced you?

 

COLLABORATION:   2:51 min.

How did you meet photographer Claire Holt, who made a portrait of you for her series about women writers?

 

CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND:   1:51 min.

Tell us about your soon to be published book, “There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral.”

 

EMPATHY:   1:14 min.

What’s your favorite movie?