Elizabeth Jacobson was the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, NM, and an Academy of American Poets 2020 Laureate Fellow. She was the founding director of the WingSpan Poetry Project, a not-for-profit that from 2013 to 2020 conducted weekly poetry classes in battered families and homeless shelters in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Elizabeth's third collection of poems, "There are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral", will be published by Free Verse Editions in 2024.