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Evie Shockley's Blog
November 9, 2009
- Greetings! I haven't posted an entry in what seems like ages, for reasons I don't have time to explain (though they could be summed up under the heading "Time" -- or lack thereof...). So I thought I'd just drop a quick note here to prove I'm still alive. : )Still alive, and reading. I recently read (in connection with teaching her poetry) the biography of Audre Lorde. It's by ...
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September 21, 2009
- This Thursday and Friday, I will be joyfully participating in a gathering that has come to be known as "ADFEMPO." Before you get carried away with the acronymic possibilities, let me explain that this chunky term refers to the even chunkier title of a poetry conference; to wit: "Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism." Click to see the schedule of events. Sorry, ...
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September 16, 2009
- How many times a month does someone ask me whether rap is poetry? More than you'd guess. Sometimes the questioner strikes me as a rap aficionado, checking to see if I'm going to come correct. Sometimes the question seems to come from a person who could never be persuaded to consider rap as "real" poetry, but who asks my opinion just to confirm that all _____ (black people / ...
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September 2, 2009
- Greetings! I realize I've not posted in some time and, fearing that it might be awhile again yet before I can sit down to compose anything substantive, I thought I'd just drop a few lines to wish everyone who is starting back to school these days a fabulous fall semester! I am back in the classroom after a substantial hiatus (in support of my research) and, as sad as I am to lose my ...
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July 31, 2009
- Greetings! This post is belated and, as mine always seem to be, brief, but I just wanted to report here that my week with the Community of Writers in Squaw Valley, CA was fantabulous! It was my first time back since 10 years ago, and I had worried that my warm-fuzzy memories from 1999 had maybe been dipped a few too many times in the river of nostalgia, if you know what I mean. : ) But, ...
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June 26, 2009
- [Scroll down for an additional treat!] This is a heads-up for poetry lovers who are also classical music lovers. Would you be interested in a book of poems that features, among other interesting characters, Ludwig van Beethoven? If so, Rita Dove has written just the thing for you. : )Her latest collection, Sonata Mulattica, is a group of poems (over 200 pages of them!) that concern -- ...
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May 24, 2009
- The Delirious Hem strikes again! : ) Which is to say, the blog space devoted to experimental / avant-garde / innovative women's poetry (its name comes from a brief phrase in an Emily Dickinson poem) has mounted another fabulous forum that you may want to check out. I'm still reading around in it myself, but wanted to go ahead and share the link with readers here. The forum curator, ...
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May 21, 2009
- Greetings! I was very pleased to see the below in my inbox this morning and thought I would share it with the RR and other readers. Let's everyone stash away a $20 (or more?) to throw in the direction of the beloved Festival, should things fall into place...Peace.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To: The Poets, Poetry Teachers, ...
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May 17, 2009
- I don't get to write often to this blog, and when I do, it's too frequently a rush job. I meant to write about a book of poetry I was reading during National Poetry Month, but by time I looked up, April had whizzed past and we were well into May. This says something about the pace of my life -- and so many of our lives -- in these faster-than-pentium fast times. As it happens, this is an ...
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April 25, 2009
- I'm not able to write a proper blog entry at the moment, but I couldn't resist linking to this article, in which writer Lea Lane brings one of Yeats' best poems to bear on the moral crisis the country is struggling with today. I thought some of you who check in here from time to time might find her post worth reading and thinking about.There are other things that other poems have to say about ...
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April 12, 2009
- Greetings! I have been having a total blast for the last couple of days doing research on one of the poets I'm writing about in my current book project. There is something about going solemnly into a very quiet room with a box or folder of very old, fragile documents, once held by the very person you're writing about, that makes my eyes (and brain) light up. Handwriting alone gives you an ...
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March 22, 2009
- Greetings! This post will be brief, but I just wanted to give a shout in the Red Room (and beyond) for two recently released books that definitely deserve a wide readership: and Aeneas stares into her helmet, by Tiffany Higgins, and Punish honey, by Karen Leona Anderson. Both were published by my own publisher, Carolina Wren Press, in their most recent first book contest, which I had the ...
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March 19, 2009
- In the wake of the discussion about Rihanna's decision to continue her relationship with Chris Brown after he physically abused her (taking place in the Red Room several days ago on Heather Catherine Hogan's, Ellen Sheeley's, and my blogs), I felt compelled to post a link to this NYTimes article that examines the attitudes towards dating violence and domestic abuse held by today's generation of ...
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March 9, 2009
- Greetings! With snow in the forecast in my area today, for my own sanity I am thinking ahead to summer! One of the treats I'm looking forward to is spending a week in the California Sierra Nevada mountain range, immersing myself in poetry at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry Workshop. It will be held from July 18-25, when poets will meet daily in small groups to share and discuss ...
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March 6, 2009
- I just posted an inordinately long response to Heather Catherine Hogan's blog post regarding Rihanna's reconciliation with Chris Brown. Since it is long enough to be a blog post itself, I thought I'd go ahead and post it here, too, though it's not on a subject I had planned to blog about. But I'm not editing it the way I would a post written specifically for my own blog, so please forgive its ...
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