Socolow
Kelley A poetry reading and open mic session is scheduled for Princeton Public Library. Poets in the Library, co-sponsored by Delaware Valley Poets and the U.S. 1 Poets Cooperative, is set for 7:30 p.m. June 9 in the library’s Fireplace Area on the second floor, 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton. Featured poets Tina Kelley and Elizabeth Anne Socolow are set to read from their works for 20 minutes each followed by an open-mic session. Kelley’s second collection of poetry,
Precise
, was published in 2013. Her first collection,
The Gospel of Galore
, won a Washington State Book Award. She co-authored
Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
, about homeless young people helped by Covenant House. Kelley was a reporter at The New York
Times
for 10 years, shared in a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service Journalism for being a part of the Times’ coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks, and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. Socolow was at the first meetings of U.S.1 Poets Cooperative in 1972. She taught college and high school English, composition, critical writing, English novel, Shakespeare and won the Barnard Poetry Award for her book
Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton
. Socolow holds a Ph. D. in Elizabethan drama and has published scholarly work about the poet, Sir Philip Sidney. Until recently, she taught a variety of classes at the Evergreen Forum for continuing education in Princeton. More information is online at princetonlibrary.org.
