Evie Shockley, “lifeline,” from a half-red sea. Copyright © 2006 by Evie Shockley, published by Carolina Wren Press. Reprinted by permission of Evie Shockley.
Evie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic (2017), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the L.A. Times Book Prize, and is available for order here. She has published four other collections of poetry, including the new black (2011), which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011). Her other honors include the 2015 Stephen Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry and the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. She is spending 2018-2019 as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Shockley is Professor of English at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
Listen to the author reading her poem, “how long has this jayne been gone?” Read reviews, interviews, and articles about Ms. Shockley and her work here:
- Sarah Blake, “A Poet Reflects on the Horrors of America: Evie Shockley on her new collection, semiautomatic,” Chicago Review of Books
- Hannah Waltz, “Six Poets, Six Questions: Evie Shockley in Conversation,” 2011 Poets Forum: “Vision and Innovation in Contemporary Poetry” panel
- “DOGBYTES Interview: Evie Shockley,” Cave Canem
