Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley | |
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Nashville, Tennessee | |
| Occupation | poet, writer |
| Education | Northwestern University (BA) University of Michigan (JD) Duke University (PhD) |
Evie Shockley is an American poet.
Early life and education
Born in 1965,[2] Shockley is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. Shockley received a BA from Northwestern University, studied law at the University of Michigan from whence she received her JD, and received a PhD in English from Duke University.[1]
Career
Shockley began as an instructor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Her work toured South Africa in 2007 as part of Biko 30/30, an exhibit dedicated to activist Steve Biko.[3]
She published the book Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry in 2011.[4] The book explores the poetics of the Black Arts Movement.[4]
the new black, published in 2011 was lauded by poet Le Hinton and he also said Shockley was the "present and future of poetry."[5] In this book her poetry draws connections within our culture, for instance a poem that cites statistics and black lives through poetry.[6]
In 2017 Shockley released her book of poetry,
Awards
In 2012 she was awarded The Holmes National Poetry Prize.
Bibliography
- The Gorgon Goddess (Carolina Wren Press, 2001)
- a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006)
- 31 words * prose poems (Belladonna* Books, 2007)
- the new black (Wesleyan University Press, 2011, 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry[1])
- Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (University Of Iowa Press, 2011)
- semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)
- suddenly we. 2023.
References
- ^ a b c d e "Evie Shockley". Poets.org. Archived from the original on 2017-09-28. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ^ a b "Evie Shockley." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2012. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000206812/LitRC?u=clic_stthomas&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=56e3ca4e. Accessed 5 Oct. 2023.
- ^ "Poet Evie Shockley to read at Bucknell". The Daily Item. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ^ from the original on 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ^ ANDRELCZYK, MIKE (12 July 2020). "Anti-racist reads: Local writers, others share their recommendations". LancasterOnline. Archived from the original on 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ^ Bennett, Chad (2018-08-13). "Americans are reading more poetry". theweek.com. Archived from the original on 2020-12-11. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ^ Whitney, Diana (2018-02-26). "Poetry by Evie Shockley, Nicole Sealey, James Crews". SFChronicle.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-14. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ^ HARRIET STAFF (26 June 2012). "Evie Shockley awarded Holmes National Poetry Prize by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 19 October 2018.
- ^ staff (2020-06-21). "Lewis Center for the Arts selects poetry award recipient". centraljersey.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-15. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ^ "More than 8,400 artists... pursue creative work". MacDowell. Archived from the original on 2021-08-12. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ^ Johnson, David (2013-06-06). "Evie Shockley". Boston Review. Archived from the original on 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
External links
- Evie Shockley, Roderick A. Ferguson, Maria A. Windell, Daniel Worden. "Reconsidering Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric. A Symposium, Part I" Los Angeles Review of Books. (6 January 2016)
- Adam McGee, Ed Pavlić, Evie Shockley. "From the Editors: Allies". Boston Review. (23 October 2019)
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