Evie Shockley Poet/Scholar

photo credit: Stéphane Robolin

Author Biography

Evie Shockley is the author of one book of poetry, a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and two poetry chapbooks, 31 words * prose poems (Belladonna* Books, 2007) and The Gorgon Goddess (Carolina Wren Press, 2001).
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Influences

Gwendolyn Brooks / Harryette Mullen / Lucille Clifton / Brenda Hillman / Amiri Baraka / Sonia Sanchez / Ed Roberson / George Elliott Clarke

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Events

Evie Shockley: Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
December 07, 2009 4:30pm - December 07, 2009 6:00pm
Princeton, NJ

Evie Shockley: Black Nature: A Symposium on the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African American Poets
March 04, 2010 5:00am - March 06, 2010 9:00am
Berkeley, CA

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Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series -- Evie Shockley

Artist: Evie Shockley
Album: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Length: 22:25 minutes (32.87 MB)
Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

A reading at Yale University on October 28, 2008, hosted by the Beinecke Library and the African American Studies department, titled "Young African American Poets: A Celebration of New Writing," featuring Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Douglas Kearney, and Evie Shockley. (Podcasts of Johnson's and Kearney's readings available separately on this website.)