Evie Shockley

Evie Shockley is an American poet.[1] Shockley received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry for her book the new black and the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize.[1] She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2018.

Early life

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 teaches at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey.[1] She published the book Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry in 2011.[2] The book explores the poetics of the Black Arts Movement.[2]

She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow since 2013.

Publications
  • 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])
  • semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)
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References
  1. Shockley, Evie (2010-12-17). "Evie Shockley". Evie Shockley. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  2. Lamm, Kimberly (2014-05-21). "The Poetics of Black Aesthetics". Contemporary Literature. 55 (1): 168–181. doi:10.1353/cli.2014.0004. ISSN 1548-9949.
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